Our life is like a river. The destination is set, but the method of our journeying is up to us. We can cruise down the middle of the river at top speed, or we can hug the shore and spin around in eddies. We can crash over rapids or chart a safer path between obstacles. We can slum along the bottom in the mire and slime of sediment, or we can glide along the sparkling surface where the air is clean. The river is ours from birth to death. How well navigate it is determined by the hundreds of small choices we make each day. To discover our mission in life we must see challenges as opportunities for growth and then face them head on. Each challenge measures our strengths and progress. Even when trials cause pain or sorrow, we must look for new lessons in the pain and ask for the power to learn and to grow from it. Suffering focuses our attention on what matters most, and with the power of love, we can strengthen our spirits by learning patience, tolerance and compassion. These lessons learned, we become co-navigators with the divine spirit inside us all. But when unlearned, we go into the eddies, spinning around, making little progress, blaming everyone for our unremitting suffering. (~ With thanks to Betty Eadie)
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:23:32 +0000
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