The Hands of Destiny

Whew! I have come out on the other side and am still alive to tell the story of how I got here. This wasn't the first time my life turned on me. I could tell of other versions of me that have gone toe to toe with the struggles of being a human and survived.

Isn't it in our human experiences that wisdom is to be found? By the look and sounds in the chaos of this world, something tells me that might not be true. I have learned from the past before and never faced a storm I wouldn't weather. If I just grab the bull by the horns, the world will work for me. And it was fool proof, until it wasn't.

I've made hard choices and mistakes that I can't take back. But when I look back at these past few years, there was intervention of a divine kind. The kind a person can't really explain in laymen's terms but can only be an example of. I believe it has always been around me, but now, I see life for the blessing that it is. I never saw the beauty in that before.

Now when I look around, I see broken people existing, just like me. We have become robots in our own lives. Living by rules, that are meant to help us survive in a just society, where these things need to exist for us to be safe enough to live, being turned against in that very same society. The paradox to human life.

We are governed and ruled outside of our own hearts and still trying to figure out the meaning of life instead of taking it in to feel alive. We work our jobs and raise our kids to be good citizens in this life. We complain and don't do change. We wait for others to change it for us. We hand over the reins of our best selves to everything around us.

This time, the struggle showed me a kindness in its cruelty. It made me challenge the very foundation of my existence. It made me question the very things I have been led to believe. This time hit different. Life put me on my knees and reaching out for my life. This was the one that made all the difference. The one I won't ever forget because it brought me a new reality check.

Questioning everything I ever did that one day, I found myself accused of something I didn't do. Why was this happening to me? One incident in time turned my life upside down. Was my life put here to pay for the sins of my father and mother? Was karma a thing? Where was God when I needed him? Who is going to save me from this life I found myself in?

I am bound to keep some things under lock and key because I think if I had to live it over again, I wouldn't come out of it the same. I see that some experiences are meant to humble us, not harden us. I learned that we could mask the pain with vices that cause addictions and acts that go against another person's judgements. It is the ones that we go against when it is our own intuition driving, you begin to pray that some divine hand will reach down and take the wheel.

Anyway, getting first-hand experience to the harder parts of my ego paralyzed me and kept in me place. Depression and anxiety took control of me and exposed me to those around me. Something was happening that I couldn't control and there were no words to explain how I got there that didn't sound crazy.

It was in this time, when no one around me could help me, that I didn't know what else to do so I did what I was taught to do. I prayed. I manifested. I begged and I pleaded. And one day, I found myself holding hands with something that was bigger than me. Bigger than anything I had ever dare dreamed, but then little things started coming back to me.

Signs everywhere that things are as they are meant to be. I felt myself being pulled up by these hands I couldn't see or touch, but I know they are there. I can feel them hold me when my soul gets low or I slip into habits that no longer serve my purpose.

They took my hands in theirs and helped me rise from the ashes. I'm not saying it all happened overnight or that there haven't been other challenges along the way. But they held me and gave me hope and strength and solidified my faith.

It is in my destiny's pull that I see the strength of those that are in the ashes of life too. Others that stand in the storms of their own and still cheered me on so that I could share my story with you. They bear witness to my story as they lived it with me too.

I, TMcB, of sound body and mind, make this my testament of truth. That when we need help the most, it is up to us to find the tribe, commune or coven that supports you. We all need someone we can look up to and I look up to those that helped me dust off to a shine.

I have been touched by a destiny I am set to fulfill in this lifetime. I have been given a dream and a new vigor to live my life to the fullest. A second chance to get it right, maybe. I found my strength with the gift of Hope and Love. I have been granted the greatest of gifts and want to give them back to the universe.

I want to hold destiny's hand and be the best me I can be. I say yes to the dream that lays before me. Dear Universe, please let the dream you set come to fruition. Fall is around the corner, and it will soon be time for harvest and I'm ready.

The saga continues as I step into my life full of abundance and love. I have found my missing piece. I know the purpose I was put here for and let me tell you the story only gets better as we go along.

There are still unresolved challenges and blockages in the road, but I believe when all is said and done, everyone will see how this half of the story must come to an end, so the writing of a new one can begin. Like little bird said or was it, Bob Marley; everything is going to be all right.

I believe I am divinely guided and protected in my life. You can call it whatever you like. I will give my gratitude to The Universe that guides me to see the lighter side of life. I can only then talk about how love got me in this mess and love got me out.

Intuition is the only guide with your best interest in mind. Great things happened when I listened to mine. I opened up my heart and mind to impossible things that have altered my entire being and in turn gave me a Life inRhymes.

A love so powerful it gave me the poetic tracks to my life. A soundtrack of love that will go on long after I'm gone.

Love, Light and Hands of Destiny,

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"The Hands of Destiny" can be found in the "Eternal Ties" Collection