Channel: Craig Woods | Source
There are moments upon the path when life appears to be moving against you. Doors close without warning, relationships dissolve, plans collapse and something you were certain belonged within your future suddenly disappears. Yet from the higher perspective of consciousness, not every loss is a punishment and not every closed door is a rejection. Sometimes what leaves your life is being removed because it can no longer travel with the frequency you are becoming.
Certain endings are forms of divine protection. You may not understand this while standing within the grief, confusion or disappointment of the moment, but there are timelines which must collapse because continuing upon them would only reinforce old patterns, fears and attachments. What appears to be life taking something away may actually be Spirit creating space around you.
Everything that manifests within your reality carries the potential to expand your consciousness. Every relationship, every delay, every disappointment and every unexpected change can reveal something about where you are still attached. Life will continually show you where fear controls your choices, where you search for security outside yourself and where you have become dependent upon particular people, outcomes or circumstances in order to feel whole.
The deeper purpose of these experiences is liberation. Consciousness wishes to free itself from everything that limits its expression through you. Sometimes this expansion comes through receiving what you desire, and sometimes it comes through watching something you desired disappear. Grace does not always arrive in the form you expected.
Trust that some doors close because there is another path beyond your present perception. Trust that some people leave because the contract between you has fulfilled its purpose. Trust that what appears to be a breakdown may actually be the breaking apart of a reality you have outgrown.
You do not need to understand the entire cosmic design from where you currently stand. Keep moving. Keep releasing. Keep allowing life to free you from fear and attachment. Eventually, you may look back and recognise that existence was never conspiring against you. It was continuously guiding you toward greater freedom. Everything was and is happening for you.