Taking the least expected path

Life sometimes takes us down paths we never expected

Brings us face to face with an obstacle we never anticipated

Asks us to examine where we want to go from here

Often in response to whispers we have been subconsciously asking the Universe

Those deep rooted and seated questions we need answers to

The ones that are buried so deep

We believe no one will hear what we are asking

That no one will know our real truths

Until those truths become too immense to contain

Even for our subconscious

Even for our conscious

Until they erupt and explode

Exposing us to the world

Exposing our deepest truths to ourselves through the lens of the world

And because we thought that truth was ours alone

We wonder how it got out

How it exposed us

We feel betrayed, ashamed, afraid, angry

A myriad of emotions

A feeling of nakedness

Of exposure to the eyes of the world

Staring back at us

Unblinking

Accusing

We fear the world will turn away from us

Make life difficult for us

We fear we will turn away from ourselves

Making life difficult for ourselves

We fear so much

That we stop

We surrender

Not in the good surrender

But in the ego based surrender

Because we can no longer take the heat

We can no longer explain

We can no longer hide for what we have asked for all along

It is during these times of our deepest darkest moments

That we are being asked to examine our deep rooted truths

To listen to what we have been asking for

Because it can no longer be contained

We can no longer be contained

We are being asked to decide what we want from here

Where we go from here

Do we go backwards to the place of discontent

Or do we face our ultimate question of what it is we want from life

And reach for it

Even in the midst of the world clamouring against us

When we are exposed

It is because we are meant to be exposed

And we are meant to become what it is we asked to become

We are given the opportunity in sometimes the most lonely way possible

To move forward

To be an instrument of change

To be the miracle we were sent here to be

It takes a very strong person to embrace

This path of the unknown

But when it is shown and taken

With truth, integrity and compassion

The path of the unknown leads us to the path of the known

And we discover once we come out of the overgrown

That we are free

Liberated to be who we asked to be

And that’s why we sometimes find ourselves on a path we never expected

Travelling down a road we never anticipated

Realising it was always our path

Our road to the place we are meant to be

With truth and grace and surrender

Namaste