Funny things – cars, karma and forgiveness (3 min read)

Forgiveness is a major theme running through Rachael’s work. Here a simple everyday experience is the reminder of just that!

Funny how things come out.

I’m lucky when it comes to my car; car park tickets, spaces, just missing accidents, avoiding traffic jams etc etc. That’s why I’m convinced that there is a God of Parking (my Aunty is convinced it’s Jesus, but I think he’s got better things to do  . . . 😉  ) And I must be really good friends with this fella. Maybe something to do with the fact that I’m pretty sure I’m living a concurrent life as a rally car driver. But when it comes to my car, I am usually lucky. And I am soooo grateful for it.

So yesterday, I was a half hour over my ticket. But still not reprimand from the Master of the Car Park – still no fine! So I asked today why? Why me? Why not everyone?

“Because you don’t value the car parking charges. You don’t believe it is a fair exchange of energy. You are the Universe (God/Source) and the Universe is you. If you don’t value it, the Universe doesn’t value it. Therefore, it needs to be karmically re-balanced. Plus you are very good at giving the remainder of your tickets to others, being open energetically on the roads (basically not getting annoyed at being cut up, letting others out). So it’s all balanced”

So point one; be kind on the roads. We all make mistakes, get distracted by the kids, the dog, the other half and the shiny thing at the the side of the road. Apart from feeling a hell of a lot less stressed, it will come back to you. The God of Car related issues will thank you for it!

Second point is a slightly larger point. I don’t value the car parking charges. Me. Not we or us or God or the Universe. Me.

£1.80 for an hour is extortionate to let my kids run around in the open air.

Which led me to thinking about Karma. I have known for a while that God does not judge us like some bearded, finger pointing Magistrate. We do.

The fact that we are all One, in God, One with the Universe does in effect mean that also the Universe is judging us. So the traditional view of being judged for your bad deeds by others, does have a firm basis.

But we are all on different parts of the same journey. So we will all be choosing to have different experiences. Not lessons. Experiences.

When we go through our experiences it is in order to gain something, some knowledge, that we could not have learnt as Spirit. Otherwise there would be no point in this journey. So many of these things will be the things that we could not have experienced as energy. They must be physical experiences. I am pretty sure that car parking tickets do not bother you when you’re energy; well not that much anyway 😉  . There is no value in me having an experience about responsibility when it comes to car park tickets or the flow of energy exchange when rattling around in my car on the road; that is not the part of the journey I am on.

Sorry – some of you maybe on that part of your journey! You may have to have loads of bad experiences on the road in order for you to understand that you are an energy being in a physical body, that you pay your energy forward and until you relax on the road and let go of your Ego when out and about, it’s going to keep happening.

People learning basic lessons about love and energy are still living in their Root Chakra and their Sacral Chakra; trying to understand what it is to be a human.

Once you understand what it is to be a human, you can start to understand what it is to be a Spirit in a physical state. These are people who are living from the Solar Plexus up. The more Spiritual Chakras.

The only person’s judgement you have to fear is your own. When we pass we will go through a stage at looking back and seeing if you’ve achieved what you set out to in this life. If your standards are really high, you may need to think about how that’s going to impact you on the next part of your journey. . It maybe that you choose to have some experiences as a spirit where you can help those you have left on the Earth plane. This maybe coming from a place of love or guilt.

We may then choose to take our experience as a Spirit further; going out and helping other beings we didn’t know on the Earth plane. We may choose to understand ourselves further as energy beings by floating around on some other dimension. We may choose to come back. Then you have to go through the process of deciding what experiences you want to have, need to have, who you want to have them with (good and bad!) etc etc.

So when you think about what you’re going through in life; remember. You chose to have these experiences. And if you chose to have these experiences, what was it you were trying to achieve. If a pattern in any part of your life repeats 3 times; physical, spiritual, or emotional, then this is the next area you need to focus on.

Take some time out, a couple of hours to sit down and think. Try to look at the situation as you would for a friend and give the advice to yourself that you would to them.

How many of us find that we are constantly helping other people, but find our own lives are messy? Hmmmm . . . what are you trying to experience? Self Love Maybe? You are worth a couple of hours that you would happily give to someone else to sort out their shizzle. We are all One; in serving yourself you will be serving others. How can you possibly hope to help others to your full potential if you won’t help yourself? It is illogical Captain, to do otherwise.

Remember to forgive those who do you ill will; it is likely you agreed with them before you came, that you both needed to experience something. In holding on to the hurt,we all know we are emotionally damaging ourselves; who takes a red hot poker and puts it in our back pocket for later? At some point it’s going to burn through your jeans and poke you in the butt!

But, if you can’t forgive them, you can’t actually forgive yourself. This is the most damaging thing.

What many of us do is to put that experience to one side and just remember that it hurt. Please pick it back up when you are ready and look at it with the wonderful perspective of time. What positive experience can you take from that part of your journey? What level of higher learning did that period in your life give you?

In forgiving them you are in fact allowing yourself to understand your experience fully. In not being able to forgive you are blocking yourself and your spiritual journey, as you are refusing to accept a part of your path, and therefore yourself.

When you look at the teachings of many of the great religious icons, forgiveness is key. And this is the real reason why. Don’t forgive just because you are told to; understand why it is an essential part of your spiritual pathway. In not forgiving you are judging on some level. In judging others we judge ourselves. Free yourself; forgive. 

So from car parks to karma to forgiveness. Who’d ‘a’ thunk it ey?

Love as always

Rachael