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, November 25, 2011

Day 329 - Lesson 328

I choose the second place to gain the first.

This lesson talks about how we so readily believe what our minds, our egos, tell us.  However, when we listen to the Voice for God, things begin to fall into place so much more easily.  Since we don't always put listening to the voice of God first, we do it second, hence the lesson....

This lesson also says:

It seems that we will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our independence from the rest of God's creation is the way in which salvation is obtained.  Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and death.  This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any second to His Will.  To join with His is but to find our own.

I wake up each day asking how I may be a vessel of Spirit.  This practice has deepened my understanding of this lesson and opened my heart to far greater possibilities than I could have ever imagined.  I'm not always immediately remembering to listen to the Voice of God, but the more I do, the more I look forward to hearing it.
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