Surrender to Emergence

You know, life is filled with paradox.  It’s enough to make you throw your hands up in despair and just say, “I surrender.”.  Which is probably exactly what is needed nine times out of ten.  Why?  Because so often you get attached to something happening a certain way and at a certain time, that you lose sight of the fact that you’re forcing a natural process to work “un-naturally”.  Sometimes, the thing that you’re trying to force, needs to just emerge.

Last year, one of my mentors talked about the fact that there are two opposing forces at work in life:  the force of homeostasis, and the force of emergence.  The former is all about things staying the same, the second is about things changing.  Both are natural, and although they work in “opposition”, they both have their place.  I assert that things stay the same until the natural process requires things to change, to be different, to emerge into whatever’s next.

As human beings who sometimes try to become human doings instead, our tendency is it ignore natural processes – to give ourselves more power than is real – and force things to happen.  Even as I write this, I can feel my own resistance rising up.  Because there are things I want to happen NOW.  And I know that when I want something and ask, the universe will provide.  What I’m forgetting, however, is that the universe will provide – in the right time.  I have to give it time to emerge.  So it’s time to sit back, to settle into trust, and allow.  It’s time to surrender to the force of emergence.