Blessings in Disguise

If you were diagnosed with a brain tumor, do you think you would say it was the best thing that ever happened to you?

Billy did. Billy took my class at Hope Lodge yesterday, a class I volunteer for cancer patients and caregivers. Afterwards, we spent some time talking and he told me about all the amazing things that have happened in his life since his diagnosis. Meaningful people have come back into his life, including one of his children, who had not been speaking to him for some time. Events have lined up and doors have been opening, and his perspective on what is important now and what he wants in his life once he finishes his treatment (which, thankfully, is going well) has understandably changed. His sense of appreciation is humbling and his attitude is nothing short of remarkable.

We didn't talk about what is enabling this attitude or this course of events. It could be, at least in part, a true sense of surrender to the flow of the universe, combined with a willingness to see the best of everything. Oh yeah, wait a minute -- that's YOGA, right? Hmm. Let me wake up a for a minute and once again acknowledge that teachers and the teachings are everywhere if you just open your eyes, ears and heart. Blessings in disguise. Om shanti.