Finding Your Way

Life is full of decision-making. Every day there are choices that we make, many inconsequential and some important. And then there are those times when we are confronted with a dilemma where the choices we feel we have to make may mean (we think) our future happiness or even our whole life ahead. Those times often bring a feeling of unease or fear. We may wonder what will happen to us if we make the “wrong “choice. Will we suffer because of it? Will we regret that choice? And this may make us also ask ourselves how we know if what we’re doing is the “right” thing.

When I was in high school, after I had decided on the course I was to take in college, I then had to decide which university I should apply to. Being young(er) and naive then I decided, without giving it much thought, that I would take the test for U.P. I supposed then it was because of my youth that simply decided on one path without entertaining the possibility of failure. I never asked myself what would happen if I wasn’t accepted in to U.P. It just never occurred to me. Looking back now I realized that I had simply made a decision on pure instinct. I didn’t think, I knew.

Decades later, as a professional, I had immersed myself thoroughly in busy-ness of life. I had a practice I was maintaining and I was raising a family of my own. I assumed I was an average person with an average life just like my peers and friends. Until I realized that I wasn’t completely happy. A nagging unease kept at me, growing more insistent as the days passed. I found myself being more and more restless and dissatisfied with my life at work. I knew as time went on that I no longer wanted to do what I was doing and one day I decided, against all reason, top close up shop and go back to school. I went back to the university to take a graduate degree for no logical reason other than that I felt it was what I wanted to do. Until the day came when I found that I wanted to teach. I allowed my instinct to take over my life and I became a teacher. And I was, and still am, thoroughly and deeply content.

Instinct is our line to the Spirit within us, I think. Perhaps, deep inside, we already know the “right” path. All it may take to be conscious of it is the suspension of fear and reasoning for a while. Many times fear and reasoning hinder our own natural growth if we allow them to take over our decision-making. Angels say that if we listen closely enough to our own Spirit the answer is always present. All we have to do is be still and listen and we will we always know our path.

Losing Your Way

A question often asked of one’s angel is, “Am I on my path?” This probably arises from a nagging suspicion that what you are doing doesn’t feel quite right. It could be that obstacles seem to be continually hindering your progress after making a decision: significant people do not show up when needed, events do not occur as planned, or simply the weather does not cooperate for the day. Or it could be that nothing seems to be happening on your path: no interesting events, no people whom you thought would help you. It may be that you’ve done something hurtful to yourself or to others and you believe that it may have knocked you off your path. It may even be that you’ve suddenly lost interest after making that original decision because it just dried up or something else caught your attention. In any or all of these you may be feeling some amount of confusion or even mild panic because things are not turning out the way you expected them to turn out.

Wondering whether you are still on your path assumes that it is possible for you to leave your path. Angels assure us that no matter what you do and no matter what happens in your life you will most likely never leave your path. This is because your path is not a rigid, authoritarian given that you must adjust your life to in spite of your own perceived frailties. Rather, it is your path that serves you and conforms itself to your circumstances. Your life path, no matter how much it may twist and turn throughout your stay on this earth, will always be part of your every life decision. Your path exists to allow you to evolve to your highest possibility. It does this at your own pace and will therefore allow for setbacks. It also recognizes that every choice you make, even those you may later regret, is part of the process of your inner growth and so will be included as a given on your path. Thus whatever happens in your life and whatever you choose to decide on your path will always be part of the path itself.

Your life is perfect. You can never lose your way. There is no way to go but higher and higher, always toward the Light. Whenever you ask, “Am I still on my path?” your angel answers, “Always and forever for the Creator is One with You.”

Let Heaven and Earth Be One

What is it like to have a divided heart? To daily walk the narrow path between the green fields of the earth and the cloud-filled sky of heaven? To savor two worlds, neither one yet embracing the other?

That path is neither straight nor easy. It is strewn with the rocks of doubt and of desire. At unforeseen points it tricks you so the eyes of your heart are momentarily blinded and you either stumble into the warm, caressing mud of the earth or the fall into the euphoric righteousness of heaven. In doing so you savor the bliss of either, forgetting where you came from and where you are going, merely content to revel in the moment.

Yet the ways of the earth are not beneath your feet and the stars of heaven are not above your head. The union of both resides within you, for you are both of the earth and of the stars. You were born of the breath of Love and you are Love made manifest. You choose to savor the delights of the created earth while soaring in the freedom of heaven. Both are within you for neither is a stranger to the other.

To think that you are of only one or the either is to forget who you are. You are not meant to be of this earth, delightfully sensual though it may be. It appeals to only to your ego, that which is called forth to serve and protect you while enjoy the earth-fruit of delight. And you are also not meant to long for heaven, turning your back on the earth and ignoring the work of ever-changing creation. For as you do so, you are also turning your back on the Creator.

Rather, let earth and heaven enfold each other in your heart. Know that you are of both for both are merely two faces of the same One. Their dichotomy exists only in the duality of the ego. Their union lives eternally in your heart.

Forget not who you are as you walk the narrow way. Know you are of One that this truth may illumine your path. And in doing so you will find that this path you journey on divides not heaven and earth but is really a Light-filled highway to eternal joy today.

Begin Anew

Rejoice! Rise up and begin anew! You have waited patiently for this time, enduring the darkness within you, waiting, waiting for when the heaviness over the door of your heart will be rolled away. You have asked yourself, “When shall it be over? When shall change begin?” as you bear the weight of the weariness of your life. You are tired of the daily patterns of your life, of the doing because you have to rather than because you want to. You feel the way is too long and endless amid the arid landscape of your life. Despair slips in and gnaws at your heart.

The day is here. Resolve from this day to begin anew. Free yourself from the shroud of dark slumber and purposefully clothe yourself in the Light. Choose to be renewed. Let go of the memories of the past, of your regrets, of your old ways, of your life that was. Ask yourself, “What is my new life to be? What newness shall I create? Who am I henceforth?”

As the sparkling summer sun warms the cold darkness that was, let it fire you up into a being of resolve and action. Go forth and be Who You Are. Reclaim yourself and proclaim that you are Spirit. That who you were is no more.

Array yourself in the Light from within you. Let it bring forth the highest thoughts, feelings, and actions from within you. Choose the highest for yourself for you are now as you have been created at the beginning and you deserve no less than this.

As angels proclaim each dawn as always a beginning, let this dawn of this new chapter of your life be a proclamation of your Being. Let each day be a remembrance and manifestation of Who You Are. Rejoice! Tomorrow is now.