I’m always looking for new recipes and recently found one for a “deconstructed lasagna.” I was intrigued.

In this recipe, my familiar vegetable lasagna had all the expected ingredients, but the completed dish looked drastically different. Everything was there — just rearranged.

“Just like my life!” I thought.

I have a family that looks different than it did six months ago. My home, finances, health — even work — everything looks different. Not bad, just different. All the elements of my life are still here, but instead of being neatly “in place” as I expected, everything is in motion. I am being undone.

While this is unexpected and uncomfortable, I also realize that with the fall of my familiar structure, I’m being invited into a deeper trust with the Divine.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer a nice, neat email from God outlining my shifts, complete with a detailed plan and a description of the end result.

Instead, I’m choosing — as best I can, day by day — to lean into the uncomfortable. To trust my guidance. To listen to the truth of my heart as it leads me to my next adventure. And the one after that.

Perhaps you’re experiencing a bit of “undoing” yourself? Maybe relationships have shifted, your career has taken an unexpected turn, or a loved one’s health scare is changing your priorities.

Our country, and our world, are also being undone. Since our external world reflects our internal one, of course this is so.

And…

We are all invited to reconstruct our lives, our families, our communities,  and our world to reflect our true values, not the ones we’ve inherited from past generations.

Scary? It certainly feels that way to me at times! But more and more, I see Divine grace smoothing the way to a future I couldn’t have imagined.

What does that look like? I don’t have a clue. And I’m strangely okay with that.

After all, just like that deconstructed lasagna, everything is still here and being rearranged by a far greater Chef than me. I’m learning to trust the result will be perfect.