By Marnie Pehrson Kuhns

Have you ever written down a goal, completely forgotten about it, and then found that note months (or years) later—only to realize you’d already accomplished it?

If so, you’ve experienced the power of living in harmony with the Law of Perpetual Transmutation.

This law states that everything is always moving—either into form or out of form. My mentor, Leslie Householder, introduced me to this concept back in 2000. She said:

“Think of the thing you desire as being spiritually created in the room with you the moment you set the intention to have it in your life.”

That one idea changed the way I approached goals forever.

From that point on, when I set a goal, I could imagine it right there in the room with me—created in a wispier, non-physical form. Not visible yet, not tangible, but real. Once something is created spiritually, it begins drawing to itself everything it needs to take physical shape. Like a magnet. The only thing it needs now… is time.

My job? Not to doubt it. Not to dismiss it as impossible. My job is to let it grow.

And I have a gravel story to prove it.

We live on a half-mile dirt and gravel road that’s tough to maintain. When the rains come, it floods. Potholes the size of craters open up, devouring tires and tearing up our suspension. Gravel doesn’t last long—and it’s not cheap to replace.

At the time, we didn’t have the funds to fix it. But I had just learned about the Law of Perpetual Transmutation and decided to give it a try.

Every time I drove the road, I’d partially close my eyes and imagine lush, thick gravel covering the drive. I pictured a smooth ride and heard the satisfying crunch of fresh gravel under my tires. I felt grateful. I felt excited.

Then one early morning, with a van full of kids heading to school, I noticed a small stretch of fresh gravel on the road. Where had it come from?

I called my sister, who lives next door—nope, not them. After errands, I came home to find more gravel. I called my dad. Not him either.

By school pickup time, three-fourths of our driveway was covered in fresh, beautiful gravel. I was giddy. I had visualized this, felt it, believed it—and now it had literally appeared!

As I returned home, I spotted a gravel truck dropping another load. I flagged down the driver and asked, “Who hired you to deliver this gravel?”

He told me that a local farmer—who owns the sod farm next to ours—had hired him. The farmer often uses our road to reach his land and had decided to repair the wear and tear his trucks had caused. Apparently, he’d also grown tired of our moon-sized potholes!

I thanked the driver profusely and asked him to pass along my overflowing gratitude to the farmer.

What I wanted had felt completely out of reach—but it wasn’t out of reach for someone else who wanted the very same thing: a smoother ride down our road.

This experience taught me something profound:
When you set a clear intention and pair it with positive emotion—gratitude, delight, trust—you ignite a process. The thing you envision begins to take shape. Like a seed in the soil, if you nurture it, it will swell, grow, and eventually bear fruit…

…or in my case, deliver gravel.

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