I prayed for a free car… and God answered in 19 days!

Yesterday I drove my new, free car home with a heart full of gratitude.

For the past two years, I’ve shared a car with my love, Hana.

I live in a city with good public transport, so it’s been doable - but Hana uses the car on weekends for work.

And I started to notice how often I’d choose to stay home, rather than go out and do things because of the longer-than-usual PT trips (a 15-minute drive can be up to 50 minutes on public transport here in Melbourne, Australia).

Life was feeling smaller than I wanted.

A bit too much hermiting, even for this borderline introvert.

I’d quietly accepted the limitations of my transport options and, without realising it, contracted my life as a result.

Then, during a journalling session last month, it dawned on me that it might be nice to have my own car again.

Years ago, when we lived in the Byron Bay area, a friend gifted us a second-hand car. It was a total bomb, but we didn’t care, as hello - free car!

It made life so much easier when we didn’t have to coordinate sharing a car.

I remembered that feeling of ease… and wanted it again.

These days, I have some savings, which is my financial buffer as I build my biz and work my (very) part-time role as a Philanthropy Lead for a public hospital - so buying a car isn’t a priority.

But I know I don't need to know the ‘how’, and instead just be open to the possibility that the Divine can orchestrate a solution in ways my mind couldn’t plan.

So I prayed:

“Dear God, if it’s in my highest and best interest to have a car, please help make it happen. A free one would be awesome!”

Then I promptly entered a competition to win a car, thinking perhaps the Divine might answer that way.

Then I surrendered and left it in the hands of the Divine and didn’t think much more about it.

Then out of the blue, just 19 days later, my mum asked if I wanted her old car (I hadn’t told her I wanted one and didn't know she had any plans of getting rid of hers).

It's a 33-year old Toyota that has done over 460,000kms.

But all things considering, it's still going strong.

“Ahh… yes please!”

Of course, there’s unearned privilege in even having this kind of family support, and I am conscious of that.

And still, it's proof that what you need can come to you in ways you didn’t anticipate or plan.

Sometimes all it takes is to let go, trust and surrender, and trust things will unfold in your favour.

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Over the years, I have had clients and friends ask me how these kinds of synchronicities line up in my life so consistently. How things arrive without force, and I seem to be in the right place at the right time.

It made me deeply consider, 'why does this work when I am not following popular manifesting advice?'.

Because I gave up mainstream manifesting years ago with all it’s endless affirmations and “acting as if” after inconsistent results and trying so hard.

These days ease replaces effort,

and good things flow.

And it can for you too.

It works because I've learned to stay open, even when it looks like nothing is happening.

It’s not hard to trust when life is flowing. It's holding faith when nothing seems to be moving, or when things take longer than expected or you encounter setbacks. That’s when doubt can creep in and overthinking or worrying increase.

You may even ignore the subtle nudges to reach out to this person, try that thing or go there, because they seem too small or too random to matter. But those nudges can lead you to be exactly to be the ‘right place, right time’.

The car arrived because I prayed, surrendered and am someone who expects good things. But without needing to know how - or even if - it would arrive. I just let go and trusted that what was for my highest good would unfold (car or no car).

That openness to allow and receive whatever outcome is in my highest good is something you can cultivate. It’s about meeting life with openness and trust and then allowing life to rise to meet you too.

Which is why I created the Receiving Frequency™ meditation.

It’s an 11-minute guided meditation to help you open to receive. It blends heart coherence practice with channelled guidance, and it works by bringing you back into a state of presence and loving gratitude. That says to the Divine “I acknowledge your gifts right here, right now”, which opens you to more.

It's yours for free.

✨ Download the Receiving Frequency™ meditation here →

With love and fierce faith,

Mandie x

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