The Law of Divine Compensation by Marianne Williamson

Author:Marianne Williamson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

A MAN AT one of my lectures once told me that he’d lived a happy life as a piano teacher, but with the recession hitting people so hard, he wasn’t teaching enough students to be able to make a living. Dan said he had prayed for a miracle.

So far, so good. Not long afterward, he received notification about a job that had opened up in an educational institution near where he lived, a job that seemed to fit his qualifications. He had been highly recommended for the position and felt certain that he had a good chance of getting it.

Okay. Still so far, so good. The Law of Divine Compensation seemed to be doing its thing. But then the ego went to work.

Here is how Dan described his process of thinking: The problem, he told himself, was that such jobs as this are too political, too fraught with institutional drama, and he would have to play a certain kind of game in order to vie for the position. After much consideration, he decided not to apply.

Notice how the ego wormed its way into his thinking: Yes, I prayed for a miracle, but I decided that what came my way wasn’t good enough. If it were really a miracle, it would look exactly as I had imagined it. Judgment set in, and the miracle was blocked.

Notice how sly the ego is here, deflecting the opportunity in the name of values. It would have him think that his fear-based choice was somehow ethically superior.

What would a miracle-minded process look like instead? First, once you pray for a miracle, consider it done. Second, be alert for the universe to show you an opportunity, even if it doesn’t look like what you’d expect. The fact that a possible solution to your problem comes in a form that your ego hadn’t planned is usually more rather than less of a sign that it’s coming from God.

I asked Dan how he could be sure politics would actually be involved. The scuttlebutt on the street that the situation was “political” was based on past situations that didn’t even pertain to him. It wasn’t necessarily true, and even if it had been, it didn’t have to apply to him in the present.

How could he be certain of what this situation might be before he even opened himself to the experience? He was like someone whose doorbell rang and who, without even opening the door, presumed to know who was on the other side, what that person was wearing, and what he or she was there for—so he decided not to open the door!

It’s not enough that miracles are always coming at us; we must be receptive, or “miracle-ready.” To receive miracles, we must have an open mind as well as an open heart. The ego would close both.

Being open to miracles is a discipline and an art. We should beware of thinking that we’ll know what a miracle will look like, what shape it will take, or what

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