Why this? Why now?

I have given a great deal of thought to whether or not a blog is right for me. I have been on an amazing journey - some of it very sad, some of it profoundly joyful. Transformation is possible - I know because it is happening with me.

I can't say for sure when it all started, other than it started happening with tremendous regularity upon my 40th birthday. This may be a rather normal occurence - you reach a certain age and start wondering if this is all there is in life. Am I doing what I'm meant to be doing? Are my beliefs real - what are my beliefs exactly?

Here's a smattering of the journey -

I got a divorce and began to discover and explore life from a much different perspective.

I began thinking about my health and researching and reaching out to learn things like: what I should be doing to avoid heart disease. The book, The China Study, changed my life. I am now a vegetarian. This also led me to quit smoking....and finally to stop drinking, too (I don't care what the studies say - just eat the grapes instead).

I have embarked upon an incredible spiritual journey - from a comparative religions class, to studying Ayurvedic living (of which I'm now studying to become an instructor), to learning more about Buddhism, and, as documented here in my blog, an active study of A Course In Miracles.

I am in a place in my life where I finally recognize very consciously that what I put in my mind and in my body is what comes out. As I am reminded most days when listening to Deepak Chopra's soul affirmations, "My body is the garden of my soul."

May I be of vessel of spirit, of loving-compassion.

Yes, I do think a blog is right for me. Thank you for joining me.
Namaste,

mac

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Day 2 - Lesson 2

Lesson 2 is similar to lesson 1 (as the course explains).  It's a bit mysterious at this point.  I could make assumptions about where it's going - but I am not going to.  Okay, I might make a few....though more to test my assumptions and not develop an opinion.

This path of learning and practicing spirituality is fascinating.  I was raised in a Christian household and we went to church sporadically.  There would be periods when we would go regularly, but then times when we wouldn't go at all.  I enjoyed church.  We went to a Baptist church for a long time.  The thing I really liked about church was the music.  If anything would (and still does) stir my soul it was (is) music.  I love gospel music.  The whole judgemental God - the old guy with the white beard - just didn't resonate with me.  I tried really hard to believe it.  I mostly tried hard to believe it because that would have made things easy - no controversy.  Fact is, I've never been too good at the no controversy thing.  I'm not a total rebel....but enough of one.

I have learned, over the past couple of years, that God does exist; for me God is a universal spirit.  I like the way Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer speak of God.  What they say resonates with me.  The common denominator in all great religions is love and compassion. 

I am saved.
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