Over Christmastime I was in a car accident and I was not in a car accident. The car’s handbrake slipped on a hill and went careering down the hill. Our two dogs were in the car at the time. The car eventually came to a stop about twenty metres at the bottom of the incline.  No one was hurt but people were in shock. One other car was scratch and our car sustained a broken wing mirror. The dogs seemed unperturbed.

As a storyteller I am a metaphor hunter. This means I look for the invitations from beyond within my day-to-day life experiences.  This is important when life appears to be throwing what easily can be viewed as negative situations.

There are no such things as accidents.  They are metaphors for what is happening in your and my life.  What then can I learn from this experience? In dreams and in life the car is often a representation of how we see ourselves.  It is also a representation of our creative energy.

For this storyteller this accident is a statement of what happens when you don’t hold on so tight to that which is controlled. When you hold on tightly to your emotional and creative expression it will one day not be able to hold on to. Life experience will ratchet up the tension and the hold you have on your emotional expressiveness and creative energy will break. You will be forced to let go.

The result will then be anything but creative. I believe that life invites us to pay attention to such minor accidents.  In this way we make the necessary changes and we avoid more major accidents.

The car careering down the hill in reverse in a small Irish town could have been anything but a minor accident. As it happened it was, in fact, a minor or maybe even a major miracle.

The likelihood of only one other car being scratched is not very high.  It was as if angels had driven the car down to where it finally came to rest. You could take this accident and see it metaphorically for your life situation. What would it tell you?

My own interpretation is this.

You have been holding on too tight to your creative energetic expression.  You need to let go the hold you have on it.  This may feel like you are going backwards.  There might be a few scratches on the surface of the ego but you will be guided to a safe place where you will find rest.  The representations of unconditional love within you will be unharmed.

What might tend to happen in such circumstances is that you call yourself all sorts of names.  The accident invites you not to be aware of the conscious need to let go and trust but that you tighten the hold on your sense of creative self then needs to find a more powerful way to find creative expression through you.

If you use this technique of metaphor thinking you are in fact making conscious that which is below the surface but which powerfully wants to express through you.  Using this technique gives meaning to that which appears meaningless. It also helps you listen to the way that life’s creative energy wants to move.  It can also allow you to avoid more intense suffering.  It also can tell you that there is a force that created you to be an expression of Love in form and will not allow you to be less than the totality of who you are.

Remember that your life need not always be an uphill struggle although that is how it might appear.  Sometimes you will be out of control and you go careering downhill.  Your ego gets scratched but if you allow it the infinite can get a chance to flow through you.  You might wake up to find that you are being invited into something that is more than accidental, that you are being invited to express Love’s purpose as it is intended to move through you.

 

 

 

 

 

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