"How I Met Your Mother" is a show about Ted Mosby and his stories as he recalls the life journey between him and his best friends Marshall, Lily, Barney, and Robin through the good times and the bad as Ted has his ups and downs with his friends mostly before and some stories after he met the one. Ted Mosby is the biggest hopeless romantic of the group with the most determination. Barney was always up to crazy schemes to hookup with women, but he usually had a soft spot for his friends when he wasn’t stealing girls away from them. He also had Robin, who was and is one of his great loves and best friends that he will ever have. Robin may have had a guarded personality, but she never let anybody tell her how to live and what to do. She let her guard down when she knew it was time to. Along with them, Lily was Marshall's wife and Ted's other female best friend. Lily was known in the group as “Lily Aldrin Justice.” Whenever someone needed a voice of reason, she was there. With this powerful group of different personalities growing together as best friends through their careers, family lives, love lives, and young adulthood to adulthood, we see many spiritual lessons that are overlooked by most. Here are the main twelve lessons that I have seen while watching this show.
1. Everything happens for a reason.
The people you date, talk to, run into, the street you crossed, and the place you ended up working at all happened for a reason.
2. You can’t force things to happen the way you want them to.
Remember when Ted tried to find his match?
3. The lesson is that when he let everything happen and stopped trying, he met the mother. 
Focus on the best version of you and everything will fall into place. This mostly applies to Ted because he seems to have tunnel vision through the series with this, but when he focused on not just finding the one and working on his career, friendships, and life, his life came together.
4. Pay attention to signs, but don’t go looking for them.
Finding the bass guitar and yellow umbrella were signs, but Ted
would force signs and his life didn't come together when he tried to
force it to.
5. Accept that life is sending you signs when you see symbols and people more than once.
But don’t dig yourself into a hole going crazy for those signs.
6. Let fate happen because your soulmate could be under your nose this whole time. 
You will meet or end up with the person you’re meant to be with at the right time.
7. Timing is key.
Robin didn’t want kids and couldn’t have kids, but Ted and Tracy ended up together about seven years after her first love passed, and then Ted ended up with Robin after grieving the mother for the same amount of time as Tracy.
8. Your soul-mate won’t always be your life partner, or you can have two soul-mates in your life. 
Ted had two, Robin had two, and Tracy had two, but it was all about the timing, so enjoy every precious moment with them that you have.
9. And even though the timing was key, these soul-mates can come to teach you life lessons.
Tracy taught Ted many things about life and Lily and Marshall always taught each other how to love and live.
10. Love isn’t perfect, but you have to be there for each other through life’s curveballs. 
Remember when Marshall stood by Lily in credit card debt?
11. We all have challenges to overcome. 
Ted finding love and his career was his challenge. Lily had to figure out who she was career wise. Marshall had an inner battle with himself over his career guilt because he wanted to save the environment, and Robin had to overcome her fear of trust and commitment.
12. Sometimes you have to forgive and let go so you can be happy and move on.
When Ted called Lily a "Grinch," they had a hard time forgiving each other from past mistakes, but in the end they realized how much they meant to eat other because forgiveness and letting go helped them heal their wounds. Ted also never called anybody a "grinch" again. Stand by your friends because they are your chosen family. Who else will bring you a beer to make peace after a fight like Lily and Ted do?
