Commenting On Belief

 

The picture says:  Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.  - Orison Swett Marden (Author of fifty or more books and booklets)

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There is a common question that many ask – the question is “What is my purpose?”   It is very difficult for another to answer something that is so personal to your soul contract.

A Course In Miracles (ACIM) (written by Helen Schucman) is a book that talks a bit about life’s purpose.  Summarized the ACIM definition of life purpose is to be the best human that you can be.  To be that best person does not mean you have to write a book, or be a musician, or a great politician, or healer.  It means that you have to be as kind, compassionate, and forgiving as you can, every day. 

I think that many people confuse their gifts – singing, art, writing, leading, or whatever the gift is, with their life purpose.   I think that one’s gift can help them be the best human they can be.  My observation is that many people sacrifice their human-ness for their gifts, believing that they are answering a higher calling.  The relationship wreckages left along the way make their calling suspect. 

However, each person has the right to follow their path, and to do it without explaining it to anyone. 

May you find your way.

Blessings,

Judy

Releasing Expectations

 

Somewhere along the evolution of humans, we changed from “allowing ourselves to be in the flow of life” to “trying to control our life and the lives of those around us”.  Wow!  

We are so busy trying to be what we think everyone is telling us that we shall be that we lose sight of the wonderful process of self discovery and the joy of finding little miracles and synchronicities each day.

Yes, we need to do some planning.  We need to have shelter and food and some kind of routine.  It seems, however, that we get so caught up in goal setting, achieving success, and being at the top, that we become egocentric or self-absorbed and sometimes ruthless.  

The proof of this is that many people that appear to have achieved the greatest successes in their field often just drop out of the profession or career, and go and do something that makes them happy.  They drop out to move more simply in life, to enjoy balance, nature, joy, and self actualization.  These folks create a new life that is very different than their old life and more like our ancestors who moved in the flow.  

Yes, we can have expectations.  The thing is that we need to have realistic expectations and not get caught up in the drama of achievement and the struggles that we create by not looking at different ways to get to the place that we want to go.  

Strokes, ulcers, heart attacks, and debilitating illnesses seem to be the road blocks that pop up to show folks that the person is on the wrong track of life.  

What do you think?

Blessings,

Judy 

What is Life?

 

When we are able to see all the little things that are amazing in Nature, then we have achieved the ability to move beyond the small things in life.  We have moved beyond the pettiness.  

Nature tells us and shows us so many beautiful things and so many miracles all the time.  Mostly, though, we do not see them.  We are locked in a rut of living that we consider to be our life.  Our life is so much more, if we let it be.

Chief Crowfoot, in the quote above, teaches us to look at all the little things that otherwise go unnoticed.  Today, step back from your regular steps in your life, and look for something different.  Look for the daily, little miracles that move through this world.

Many blessings.

Judy