Dear AROL family,
My present spiritual path began the day I was born. It has taken many twists and turns along the way and has been hard to find at times. When I was a child and young person, part of my path was evidently to learn of different religions and find out what I was truly meant to follow. I went to church with school friends at different times and with my grandmother, my mother and other people who helped influence my path.
I used to notice a peculiar feeling I would have when I would go to certain churches. I would feel this deep longing this deep homesickness or a feeling of loneliness even though I was surrounded by people. I didn't know what it was then, but over the years have learned it is the feeling of being off my path just a little bit, but that the places that made me feel this way were all lessons, learning places, steppingstones to my path. I discovered along the way too that our personal spiritual paths are done alone. They are ours alone and we travel our particular paths alone, but on our spiritual journey which our path follows always, we travel with others. We meet many people along our way and some stay with us awhile and our paths travel side by side on our journey. When we are traveling beside someone else, it usually means we have something to do in that part of our journey together and with all of the others traveling with us at that time. We work together toward the fixing of something or the learning of something.. whatever it happens to be at that time... and we work together like a well oiled machine to get it accomplished. We all have our own paths and our own gifts, but when we are with others that it feels as if we belong together as friends or spouses or family members our gifts and our talents all work together and is a beautiful feeling and sight when we accomplish whatever it is we were to do. Each time we do this we grow on our path in our spiritual life.
Lessons come my way all of the time and rarely are they easy to learn. When we recognize the lesson and recognize we have gotten past it and know what it was, then we have learned and grown. I had to learn this the hard way many times. lol We all have our moments of frustration, but I learned that when this happens, I just have to stop abit and look inside and truly believe that my God/Creator is helping me always and if I ask I will get the help and answers I need at any given time. I have learned that the answers I get or the help I get is not always what my human mind thinks it should be, but I get help, even if it takes me awhile to know that is what it was. lol I have my share of human stubbornness, so sometimes it is hard for me to see that my prayers have been answered. When I see that they have.. that is another lesson learned on my spiritual path. My journey has been filled with many experiences and many many lessons and will be filled with many more, but each step of the way, my path is always there.. even if I step off of it for a short time and learn how to find it again. My path leads directly to my God/Creator.
Love in Light and Peace,
Winds of Change
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