Law of Attraction

I have a very interesting story to share about how I have manifested some incredible experiences in my life very recently.
I co-host an Abraham Hicks Meet-up group that meets once a month. In December I left the meet-up to arrive home and see that my vehicle was gone from my drive way. I knew without having to check that the ex had come to retrieve the car since it is titled under his name.
This upset my daughters quite a bit due to the fact that this impacted their experiences as well since this was the only vehicle that I had access to at that time. As you can imagine there was quite a bit of negative conversation going on within minutes of leaving the meet-up.
I then had a flash of creativity, I thought " I just left the Abraham Hicks meet-up and I am being asked to really walk my talk here.....how can I turn this around?" So here I have the first idea, turn this around. I then started telling my daughters that this is just a good example of how we are being asked to create our reality and what did we want to create? I prefer to feel good so I am going to look for the best possible thing and work my way up. The best possible thing I could see at that moment was how terrible the ex looked to anyone seeing the situation, then the next thought happened to be " well that seems to be the last tie with the ex, the very last thing he can take, wasn't so bad as I thought it would be." So that moved me up a notch. The next step I managed to make is knowing that this was definitely perfect, I didn't see how it was perfect yet but I knew it was perfect. All of these thoughts transpired before the police were at the house to see what could be done.
The police were not able to help me, I had to wait for a court date. Sounded pretty bleak until a good friend said that they could help me with transportation as long as I needed it. This showed me how wonderful my friends are and how lucky I am. I also felt a slight "niggle" about allowing my friends to inconvenience themselves for my sake, but had no other choice so went with the flow.
For about 4-5 days I had access to a vehicle without a hitch every time that the need arose, it was pretty astounding. I still had that "niggle" about putting other people out. The "niggle" turned into a real pity pot on the 5th day or so and I made the statement " Da^# i# I want a car!"
I blew off some steam, had a cup of tea and forgot about my tantrum.
Within 2 days a very good friend comes to me and tells me that they have a car for me that I can have. Wow! I can have it? So, the little "niggle" jumps up in my face and says " You cannot possibly consider taking a car for free from someone....that is unheard of!" but what comes out of my mouth is " what a generous offer, let me think about it and I will get back to you". Sound ridiculous? I saw the offer as a manifestation that I created, however it wasn't on my terms now was it?
The offer was made once again and I finally saw what the universe was telling me. You asked for a car, I'm trying to give you a car and you won't take it.
Why did I have a problem receiving my manifestation? I have worked with the law of attraction for years, I am a loyal Abraham follower, I co-host an Abe Meet-up for goodness sake! How could I not be ready to receive my manifestation????? How could I not be walking the talk? How could the universe have to tell me twice?
I still had reservations about accepting a gift that is worth so much for no exchange. I realised that this is a major block to prosperity. I can't expect to do manifestation work then dictate how those manifestations appear in my life. I realised this was something I probably need to look at and let go of, if any of my manifestations were not being realised it was probably because I was not receiving them as they came along.
I am still working on letting that completely go, but I was able to ask the universe what could I do in order to accept this gift and feel good about it. The answer came immediately through an idea, trade. Trade what? Well she is rock collector, I am a rock dealer. So you can know that my friend now has a very beautiful specimen and I now have a vehicle in my drive way.
The best part of this story is how by using material that I have at my fingertips to stay in a good feeling place during this whole ordeal, manifest use of a vehicle(thanks to great friends), manifest a new vehicle ( now titled in my name!) and see a very valuable part of manifesting in receiving. I have learned that when I want something to happen for me I must be ready for it to happen and not dictate the way it happens. We all have heard that in the past, but this experience really shot that one home for me!