We know we have gifts and talents we would like to put to service of ourselves and others, but we can't always make it all connect together. What is the missing link?
I read somewhere that when you want the Universe to bring something to you, you need to focus your energy in a way that you can visualise that which you want with as much detail as possible. Then, in an incredible show of trust and faith, release your wanting and believe that the Universe “has taken your order” and will deliver when the time is right. Not before, not after.

I have actually seen this in practice many a time although I must admit that when the Universe “delivers” I have normally forgotten that what I asked for! But the Universe never ceases to impress me with the accuracy, easiness and simplicity in its ways to bring to me that which I wished for.

One of these occasions was a “black car”. I did not really say what brand or age but I did focus on a “new or newish” car, definitely black, somehow sporty (more like 3 doors, really – I didn’t want to be greedy in my first attempt to “focused ordering”), definitely reliable and with enough power to get me out of trouble if I needed to accelerate in a roundabout. Ah! And with power steering (my arm muscles are not that developed!) and electric windows.

A second Universal principle is that “the Universe PROMOTES YOU AUTOMATICALLY as soon as you are ready to move on”. Normally we despair in the jobs we have or relationships we are stuck with because we can’t see what is the lesson still to be learnt and want to “run from it”, if we could… sometimes even forcing break-ups or quitting jobs in order to move on to the next thing. However, if the lesson wasn’t truly learnt, we take it with us to the next relationship or job. Therefore within a few months of initial bliss it rears its ugly face again and we wonder “what have we done to deserve this!”.

I was at such a point when my phone rung one day at work and I was offered a new job. I didn’t even know this particular agency even had my CV. I must have sent it there eons ago but, as it goes, God/The Universe moves in “mysterious ways” and within three days, I had accepted my new job and signed the contract.

To my surprise, and although my new boss and me hadn’t talk about this, on my first day I had a meeting with him and I was offered a car with the new position. There was one available: a black, three door, sporty looking, powerful, newish, electric windows, central locking and power-steering car.

Knowing the Universe as I do, I was pleasantly surprised but not completely shocked…

I was in the job for about a year and a half and this car had been truly reliable and smooth to drive. It made me feel secure and safe in it and everyday I thanked it for giving me freedom and safety, and I would also send it my love. You know how it is, things can be a little bit sensitive sometimes if you don’t spare them a thought now and then… In a parallel spiritual path (I always seem to be juggling both in a conscious and active way!), as well as the emotional and physical learning involved in my job, I went through series of energy shifts and clearings, through huge learning steps. I didn’t mind because my spiritual growth kept me sane in this physical job and allowed me to survive, although God knows I wanted to leave every day! But as my first paragraph states, I chose to endure because I wanted to learn the presented lesson and be able to move on in freedom. But this will be another article…

This particular day, I was meeting my friend and medium to do some channelling, as we do on a regular basis. We were both going through great changes in our lives so perhaps our energies were not settled enough for us to get together that Friday evening…

But the fact is that my car broke down. It simply cut itself off and stopped in the middle of the road. Luckily it was a slip road and not one of the fast dual carriage ways, which I just “happened” to leave a second ago…

The “very nice” AA man arrived and spent an hour looking at the car. To his amazement everything seemed to work properly but somehow the car wasn’t “going”. He took it to bits and put it together again and said that it was the first time he ever saw anything like it. I said to him that it seemed a familiar story to me, that “all my bits” were also working but the whole didn’t seem to be “going anywhere”. I am not sure if he understood the spiritual connotations but he certainly laughed…

Next thing I know, I am being toad home. You can imagine the feeling of being “pulled”

Next day, Saturday, I called the garage because I wanted to get it sorted as soon as possible. I don’t know how this happened, but I called the car company to explain the problem and within 30 seconds exactly, 2 RAC vans appeared in front of my house to toad the car to the garage. As to this day, I can’t really explain how it happened… all I can say is that the Universe seems to be ready at a split second call distance when the time is right…

When the car was repaired a few days later, I was told that the “coolant temperature sensor” had been replaced. Don’t ask me what it is because I haven’t got a clue, but what I do know is that I thought “funny how even when all the pieces work separately, it takes a little missing piece to connect them all together…”.

At the time, I was going through a transformation where I knew almost all my lessons had been learnt in my current job and I was looking for placing my gifts in an environment where I had more freedom and I could derive more fulfilment from my new “appointment”. I was truly grateful to the Universe from having brought to me “this job from Hell” and what I did to prove it I consider truly miraculous in my book: not only I didn’t leave, but I drew out resources I never knew I had inside and as a result, I underwent such incredible growth that I don’t even recognise myself today! And the best thing is that I don’t think I will ever feel reality at the same level I did then ever again. This is not to say that the reality will not be challenging in the future, but just that I will never experience it like it was during that time! The struggle was horrific…

During that week, I was talking to a friend of mine and he paid me a few compliments. I knew he meant them from his heart and in fact he has talked to me before, although I would normally brush them trough, but in this occasion I thought: “Why am I not allowing these compliments in? Where in my body and soul am I not accepting these gifts?”.

In my morning meditation I was focusing on these questions and the inspiration that came to me was that “no matter how beautiful or gifted you are, if you don’t accept your gifts, if you don’t wholeheartedly embrace the generosity of the Universe towards you, you can never own them and develop them in a successful and effective way”. Your fists are closed and your hands are not opened to accept these gifts and the Universe can’t force them upon you… it is a matter of free-will.

Then it hit me: in the acceptance of the present, which I was refusing; in the acceptance of who you are, which I was not believing; in the acceptance of your skills, gifts, soul quality, which I was not completely embracing… lays the acceptance of your gifts, your abundance, your present and your future, your dreams…

And I CONNECTED: I realised that the missing “coolant temperature sensor” in my being was COMPASSION: for myself, for my childhood, for my parents, for my boss, for my job, for my partner, for my mother in law!, for my work colleagues, for my “imperfections”… I realised that our physical reality is merely a mirror of our beliefs so I HAD to change these beliefs in order to change my reality, but the only way I could do this is through COMPASSION.

And at that point I loved myself so much that I decided to completely SURRENDER my wants and TRUST the Universe with this new flood of light, understanding and insight, and let it TOAD me with its Spiritual AA (Angels in Assistance, perhaps?). And so what I am working on now is accepting and grounding my gifts so that Mother Earth helps me to root them and manifest them in ways that are beneficial for me and the rest of the human clan...

Oh! And by the way, my car is driving smoother than ever, thank you for asking (I thought you might want to know…)

About the Author

Ana is a Reiki Master, Spiritual Coach and works with Native American spiritually based Animal Strategy. As a result, Ana helps people untangle themselves from painful emotional turmoil and struggle by attaining inner harmony, detachment and self-reliance. Ana will help you draw out your inner wisdom so that you can tackle life challenges in practical and inspiring ways.