Embracing the Dents

On New Year’s Day, I returned to a parking lot and discovered the rear corner bumper of my car had randomly been crunched—ouch. Not even a random note that said,“I hit you and, oops, I am sorry?” As a self-proclaimed "waver" and a huge believer in karma, I was more than a little irked and disappointed.

I had come to "embrace my dent" each time I saw it without getting angry, and unlike myself, I decided to live with and love it until it was convenient to get it fixed. Yesterday I had a minute so I took it to a body shop to get the dreaded repair estimate: “…not an easy repair and blah blah blah..."$1180". Bam! The anger is back.

Today - for a variety of reasons - I woke up with a calm, different awareness and ability to flow with and accept all the seeming chaos in the/my world right now, and I embraced it, like my dent.

This afternoon, a very kind and professional man randomly showed up at my home and told me he could fix it right there in an hour for 10% of the estimate I received yesterday. There must be a catch. Nope..I checked him out; he was more than legitimate, and he proceeded to do an incredible job with a sweet, nurturing energy and smile. 

The power and lesson of letting go were made visible to me today. Always grateful for perfect synchronicities and seeming mishaps with happy endings.