The Universe Always Conspires...When the Time is Right

Earlier in my life when I was teaching at a small college in Boston, I became good friends with the career counselor there. I was fascinated with her job and expressed that I would love to do what she did someday. I didn't give it too much thought after that and went about living my life, never developing a plan to make that desire happen. But the Universe had taken note of it. About 17 years later I found myself being asked if I wanted to be the Director of Career Services at another small college. And I had no experience in this field! Talk about a leap of faith on their part.

I often wonder, "How did this happen?" Was it the simple act of expressing what I wanted?" As I said, I had no vision board or action plan to achieve this career goal. Did the universe conspire to make this happen as Paulo Coelho proclaims in The Alchemist? Was it pre-destined that it was meant to happen? 

A cousin of mine commented to me recently that when she was little she had a scrapbook with pictures of houses that are remarkably similar to the house she now lives in. A former coworker who grew up in upstate New York told me that when she was a little girl she was obsessed with Russia for some reason and had a map of Russia on her bedroom wall. It turned out that many years later she married a man from Russia. Stories like these abound.

Sometimes we get impatient when we wish or pray for things and they don't happen immediately. However, when we look back on our earlier lives and the things we had hoped and prayed for, we often realize that they did eventually happen...not necessarily in our time, but in God's time or the Universe's time. Take a moment to reflect on this idea. Are there things that have manifested in your life that you had wished for long ago? Sometimes we take these things for granted, not realizing that they had once been desires or dreams that have remarkably come true with very little effort on our part. Take a moment to feel thankful for these blessings. 

The beautiful thing is that the Universe will continue to conspire on your behalf, as it has for me. I find myself now working in a university environment that is the absolutely perfect place for me. All of my thoughts and desires about what I wanted in a work environment have come to fruition in this place, at this time. Sometimes we despair and abandon our dreams and desires if they don't happen when we want them to. Be patient. It took 17 years for my initial dream to manifest into a reality. When the time is right, the Universe will also conspire on your behalf to make your dreams a reality.