Whatever you ask for... will find you.

I believe we draw things to us. People, lessons, experiences, books, music - you name it. If we're not ready for them, they just keep on coming back to us until we are. The hardest part is being open to receiving them at all. I know for myself sometimes things have to hit me over the head before I get the message. Apparently I'm not one for subtle messages.

I'm writing this because a friend of mine years ago gave me a book. I accepted it with thanks and put it on my bookshelf and never got around to reading it. The next year I was at the spa and my masseuse who I had met a year before asked me for my address so she could send me something. I said yes and a month later received another copy of the book a different person had given me two years prior.

A few months later a friend borrowed the book - and me knowing I had two copies said she could keep it. That year for my birthday I got two copies from two completely different friends!
But you know what - I still didn't read the bloody book! I packed them all up because we were moving and left them in the boxes because I didn't have room to unpack all of my library in that home. We moved again a year later and still I hadn't unpacked the books until about a month ago.

The very day I started to unpack the books I was called to the door by a neighbor who wanted to give me a book. You guessed it - the same book, with a DVD inside. Yet to me it seemed like it was the first time I had received it. I guess I was finally ready to receive it. I stopped my unpacking, read the newly provided copy, watched the DVD and started to laugh at myself.

When I finally resumed my unpacking I carefully placed all 5 copies of the book that I now own together on my shelf. I'll keep them until I figure out who I should give them to so they can keep their own copy until they are ready.

It's not the book per se, its the content that you need to be ready for. Because once you know something, you cannot "un know" it. Call it fate, destiny.. whatever you want, but whatever you ask for, will find you. It's up to you to be ready for it.