A Couple Thoughts
In a class recently, we received a couple very broad messages. I felt they should be passed on and expanded on if I can. So, here goes...
We look at people’s lives and lifetimes, some short, others long. Life is a series of experiences, a roller coaster if you will full of ups and downs. There are changes in direction, quick turns, drops, and rises. But how one looks at it from the inside is important.
Life lived over many years sees such a wide range of events and opportunities. When someone is young, life seems to hold only joy and promise. We see ourselves dreaming about what we want to do when we grow up. We visualize each step to getting what we expect our life to be. But then in an instant everything can change, and life can just be a holding pattern without a future, waiting for something to come along and jump start us to where we think we should be.
Enjoy and remember each moment life offers you joy. Save each memory of joy, of happiness, of people you can no longer be with. These memories of past joy can nourish and comfort you if joy ceases. You can relive joy, but first you have to create it, and store it as your memory.
Writer’s personal note: This message was given to our class yesterday. And on the day that I write this to pass it on, I have been reminded of my father-in-law’s passing two years ago today, just two months after my father’s passing. What this passes on is very true. Make the memories you can of people and events. Then store them away and remember them with fondness, joy, and love.
And the second message goes a bit farther in a different direction
Forget tragedy. Don’t feel bad of how someone passed on, or how young they were. Enjoy the life that was no matter how long or how short. Don’t worry about what might have been or what was to come. Know that the life was full and the task fulfilled. Any life is a celebration and we should acknowledge that.
As a person who is spiritual, I believe that we come into each life to learn, to fulfill some task. That task could be change the world, or to die young by someone’s negligence. The one’s that change the world could do so by being the leaders of some movement of change, or the evil that this movement of change is fighting. We could be here to be the role model, or the example of what not to be. (I used to have a boss that lied and cheated his way through everyone he could, and he loved telling about how bad his life was. He would then state “Well, God keeps me around for reason.” Yes, I always thought that reason was to be an example.)
Each person, each spirit as they fulfill their role accomplishes their tasks, even if their task was to bring attention to problems going on in the world. We should acknowledge that, all the successes, and failures, all the ups and downs. Each is a piece of a puzzle, and when put together with other pieces make a whole, but that whole is part of the global consciousness, of raising vibrations, of moving everything ahead. Everything is a part of what should be.
Don’t mourn a passing, celebrate the existence. Each piece is a stepping stone of a journey, of growth for all.