Now… I look at people and real life happening around me.  Lady dying from cancer and many other physical ills, taking visible pleasure from memories, happiness changing her countenance and heart for a few brief moments, mercifully transporting her to another time and place.  Poignantly seeing the move from pleasure back to present reality.  Family dealing with mentally ill loved one, overwhelmed and dealing with heart hurt and situation as best they can.  How does one learn about these things that man of us never have need to or knowledge of?  How does one even know where to look for help?  How does one overlook appearances and continue to love the sometimes unlovable?

Sometimes I wonder what my purpose is.  It is certainly not only to deal with confused birds and sore backs and buckets of sewer water, do you think?  I hope not!  These must just be diversions.  I notice they come sandwiched in-between the important stuff, perhaps to show the contrast.  So I’m affirming, “I get it God, I don’t need any more diversions right now!”

Often we get so caught up in the habits and responsibilities and too, the sorrows and joys, of daily living, because we all have so much to do, that we don’t notice where we’re going or how far we’ve come on our spiritual journey, which is the real reason we’re here.  We end up taking a lot of detours.  That’s all right, if we are choosing to do that ‘cuz we all end up in the right place eventually, but often times we go unconscious and choose while in a questionable, vulnerable state of mindlessness!  We follow this or that guru-of-the-moment instead of listening to our heart for the right direction.  We want to remember that we always have our own answers.  We just don’t always know the right questions to ask.

Here on earth, we’re largely involved in the physical.  This is important.  After all, we have to take good care of the vehicle that carries our spirit around or we’ll be looking for a new one sooner than we think!  Sometimes, in assessing our life we feel we haven’t progressed far enough.  When we look at yesterday or the day before or maybe even the year before, that’s how it may seem.  If we go way back, and remember where we were then, we see some pretty big leaps and bounds, perhaps not quantum ones but baby steps at least.  Change happens so subtly that and so silently that we don’t notice.  It’s like growing from childhood to adult.  We can’t put our finger on any one time or event that made it happen.  We simply evolve from baby to grown-up, thought by though and cell by cell.  “Inch by inch and row by row…”  That’s what our life is all about.  Our skin and our mind and our body and our spirit stretch.  It’s only with intermittent time periods in between that we are able to it happening.

I’m thinking that the things like bird’s nests and malfunctioning sewer systems all serve a purpose.  Just as we can’t see our growth happening, we don’t see a purpose in these distracting circumstances, but if what we believe is true, is, and I believe it is, that God is all there is, then there is a reason for everything.  Finding our reason through fully living every moment, is what it is all about.  Life happens

Infinite Blessings,
Rev. Doris