Are You Asking for Kibbles When the Universe Is Offering You a Feast?

We Ask for What We Know. What If the Better Answer Lies Beyond It?

My beloved pug, Shella, passed away three months ago. Musing over my 11 years with him, I couldn’t help but wonder: what would Shella ask for if he ever came face-to-face with his Creator?

I knew the answer in a second, and it made me chuckle.

Of course, he’d want to be back with me, but kibbles, yes, a delicious, unlimited supply of kibbles would be his top demand. He wouldn’t stray too far from his dog-food dreams.

Us humans are no different.

We struggle to conceive of possibilities beyond the conditioning of the environments we’ve lived in. Why? Because we rely far too heavily on our limited human intelligence.

In goal setting and manifestation practices, we often place enormous emphasis on imagination. But imagination itself is conditioned. It can only work with what we already know, what we’ve seen, touched, experienced, or been told is possible.

We don’t know what we don’t know. So we keep circling familiar mental tracks, trying to solve the how. We pattern and predicate everything on routes we recognize. Known paths, known timelines, known means. And without realising it, this becomes the very thing that blocks what we want to create.

We don’t just want what we want. We want it to arrive through channels we already understand.

Most of us aren’t blocked by lack of faith, but by familiarity.

In that way, we become a little like Shella. Earnest, sincere, and well-meaning—asking for kibbles while an entire universe of possibility exists beyond that bowl.

The laws of the Universe are often misunderstood

Our role in creation is not to micromanage outcomes. It is to clarify desire, tune into inner guidance, and remain willing participants in inspired action. This is very different from hustle, force, or glorified suffering and “hard” work disguised as discipline.

In my previous posts, I spoke about releasing the need to figure out the how, and about how we are never creating alone (you can read them here and here). Source is always working with us, often in ways our human minds cannot comprehend or orchestrate.

So when something you want doesn’t materialize, and frustration creeps in, there is often a deeper intelligence at play. There is wisdom in what is delayed, redirected, or withheld.

How so?

Source knows what you want at levels deeper than language. Not just the surface-level desire or the “kibbles” you’ve been asking for.

Source knows the version of you that exists on the other side of what you want. It knows what that outcome would mean for your life, your relationships, your sense of self.

So when something doesn’t arrive in the form you expected, or on the timeline you imagined, it isn’t a reflection of unworthiness or failure.

More often, it’s an indication that something more aligned is being shaped. Besides, you can only experience what you are ready for vibrationally. It’s mathematics.

Maybe you asked for the job, and it didn’t come through. But what arrived instead was a connection you couldn’t have planned. May be someone who recognized your potential and opened a door you didn’t know existed. A role that paid more, demanded less, and quietly changed the trajectory of your life.

Maybe you asked for a relationship to work, and it ended instead. And years later, you met someone who actually sees you, whose values align with yours, whose presence feels like ease rather than effort. Someone you couldn’t have imagined at the time because your world hadn’t yet expanded to include people like that.

Maybe you asked for your health to improve by following what you’d read or been told. But what actually transformed things was meeting a practitioner who understood your body, your nervous system, your history. Not the generic prescription, but the precise one you couldn’t have designed yourself.

In each case, what you originally asked for made sense based on what you knew. But what arrived required a larger context.

This is the gap between what we ask for and what Source provides.

The discomfort we feel when things don’t unfold our way isn’t necessarily a sign that something is wrong. Often, it’s the edge where our conditioned imagination meets a much wider field of possibility.

Our part is simpler than we make it.

To stay honest about what we desire.

To remain available to guidance rather than control.

To take action when it feels clear and alive, rather than forced.

And to allow the how to reveal itself in ways we could not have predicted.

The Universe is not stingy. It isn’t punitive. And it isn’t limited by what we can currently imagine.

When we loosen our grip on form, on needing things to arrive through familiar channels, we make space for something far more intelligent to move.

We stop asking for kibbles.

And we become available for nourishment we didn’t know how to request.

Shella never knew that beyond his dog-food dreams existed an entire life with me—eleven years of belonging, care, routine, adventure, and love. His pug mind couldn’t conceive it.

But I could because I existed in a larger context than his perspective allowed.

Source exists in a larger context than ours.

What if what you’re waiting for requires you to stop insisting on what you already know?

Where might you be asking for “kibbles” right now?

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If something stirred—agreement or resistance—I’d love to hear. I read every reply.

Rishi
@thefeelingeye