THE STORY

Yesterday I left the store in a hurry. I had a 5pm in
Santa Monica and was leaving late. I got in the car
and realized that I had no gas. Typical of me, I had
waited until ‘the light” had been on past the point of
comfort and knew I had to go and fill up before getting on
the freeway.
I rushed to the gas station. Put in my card and pulled out
the hose to stick it in my gas tank. I waited. The display
read… “see attendant". Damn.
My cell phone rang. A client was driving downtown to pick
things up, was running late, will we wait for her?. … etc and so
forth, I gave the guy my card, he swipes it, I take my card.
I was still on the phone with my client….. “sure we can
wait, just call Michelle…. yes, right, great,”
I go to the car, get in and drive off.
I hear a thud……..
I get out of the car at there is the hose still attached
to my tank and now completely detached from the
pump.
Everything stops for a second.
Oh my God. I have broken a gas pump.
My licence number, my phone number, and the
information that I will be charged 2 to 3 hundred dollars
when the pump is repaired.

I call JD.
“Bunny….. you aren’t going to believe this but I …"….
And as I tell him, I begin to laugh. OH my GOD.
there was the pump still attached to my car…….
And he says,” wow….. how can you laugh at this..
I would be upset for days” ……. and I say.
AND HERE IS THE THING………
I say…… “there are dramas of the soul and dramas of
matter. This is one of matter. If I make it a drama of the soul
then I will internalize it. Once it is inside me, the rest of my day
will be ruined and perhaps tomorrow too and then maybe the next
day. This is a thing that can be handled. It shall stay out side of
me……. it is a drama that is of matter– out there—and I will
keep it out there. Its just what it is. I need not make it more.”
And I laughed some more as I reviewed the experience again.

The parking ticket, the little car accident, the flat tire, the broken
vase, the spilled drink, the stained blouse, the lost cell phone.
These are mistakes, mysteries, mishaps. Let them be simple.
Take them in and you give them more power than they deserve.
Think of the little moments of challenge as just that. They challenge
your ability to stay in love, in freedom, in joy and hope. WIN
WIN. Never let the negative get you. Don’t let it in you. Just
look at it and laugh. HA HA. Fine then, I’ll pay the fee, I will get a
new cell phone, I will clean up the drink and sweep up the vase
and YOU, Negativity, dark one….. you will not get me for more than
one second………
Trust me on this…… laugh at the dark side and its miserable attempts
to steal you away from all that you are and deserve to be. Happy.
Loved, Free.