If you ask the Universe you always get an answer

I was reminded of this when I passed my daughter’s bedroom. Every surface was covered with piles of books, art supplies, clothes, notebooks and other teenage paraphernalia. I felt my anger rising, we had discussed this and she had promised to keep her room organized. I closed the door feeling very frustrated. As I walked into the kitchen I took a moment to reflect on how I was feeling and why. I felt concerned that her lack of organization was going to be a real challenge for her as she headed off to college this fall. I began to work through a basket of books, journals and magazines tossing the old and putting the ones that I had read in a pile to go on the bookshelf. I leafed through a journal I had written notes in from different books I had been reading and stopped on a particular page and read something I had written “ each person in a family is needed exactly as he or she is for each of the family members to learn to love unconditionally” . And just like that the Universe answered my question on why my daughter was so messy and how it bothered me. I needed to let it go. So I decided to make a list of all my daughters’ great qualities and it is a much more important list of traits than being messy.