I was walking with my daughters and my husband last night on the dark trail that winds behind our house, and we saw so many fireflies along the way. They flashed their tails and then, just as quickly, they vanished. An instant later, another two would light up. Our eyes had to dart around to keep up with all their illumination.Â
My husband said to my daughters, “Keep looking, girls. You’ll see the fireflies!”Â
They kept trying to find the bugs, and I did too. I’d catch one putting on a show, and just as that one dimmed, I’d see another light up in my peripheral vision. But by the time I turned to see it, it was gone.Â
It made me realize that, no matter how much I squinted into the darkness, the harder I looked for the next firefly, the less likely I was to see one.Â
That got me thinking about how life is the same way.Â
The more intensely we focus on what we WANT to be in our lives, the more we see nothing. Sometimes we think we can WILL something to happen in our lives merely by concentrating on it with a stronger gaze.Â
It brings me back to the Law of Attraction. I believe in this in large part, but it can be deceiving in one respect: It can make you believe that, if you focus on something hard enough, and believe that it will happen, that it will then occur. Sure, this might actually turn out to be true for you every once in a while, just because of the law of probabilities. There’s bound to be a coincidence every so often.Â
But we need to get beyond mere probabilities. We need to look at another phenomenon at work here, which we can completely miss when we concentrate so hard on what we want that we put the blinders on for everything else.Â
That phenomenon that we’re forgetting is free will, intuition, and divine timing.Â
1. Â Free will means we are free to follow the path that’s divinely ordained for us or one of our own making, and to change directions whenever and however we see fit. It means we can go on impulse, thinking (falsely) that we know what’s best for us, even when evidence mounts to the contrary!Â
2.  Intuition, on the other hand, is the divine guidance trying to lead us along the right path. Think of it as a little nudge. Or getting back to the fireflies, remember that we don’t have to stare at one particular firefly. All the fireflies will light up no matter what we do, so the best bet is to sit back and enjoy all of them.
3. Â Divine timing is the pace of our life according to intuition, or God’s guidance. When you follow your free will, though, the timing of events is all your own. But when you focus so hard on the darkness to make a firefly light up, chances are, it won’t. Yet when you look instead toward the fireflies’ general direction and allow yourself to be guided by the nudges of intuition, you’re sure get to where you need to go and see an incredible lightshow along the way.
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