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

Friday, February 11, 2011

Day 42 - Lesson 41

God goes wherever I go.  This lesson starts by saying: Today's idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness and abandonment all the separated ones experience.

As I have been reflecting upon my day, I find that it is so easy to recognize the places I went with God today.  I didn't, until very recently, make much of a habit of recognizing God in any way - in fact, I avoided it.  Now I am delighted and amazed and thankful to see and feel God in very real ways.  I am taking the time now to see the miracles of life in an every day, moment by moment way.  I do feel a greater sense of connectedness. 

I had a wonderful 'people' day.  Each in-person contact, email contact, phone contact was in some way special.  Every encounter was friendly and fruitful - in that I felt gifted by each person in some way - maybe I'm just paying better attention.  I hope so. 

The other idea I actively incorporated into my day is the Law of Detachment.  One of Deepak Chopra's lines in the introduction of this law is: And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.  I love that and I love swaying to the beat of that.
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