Narrow Passage

When I look back upon my life, I honestly have to admit, that some of the decisions that I made only worked out because all the surrounding details fit together precisely at the same time, also.


Here is an example of what I mean: There was one time when I decided to move. I felt that I should leave city-life and return to the country/mountain-life that I love. Weighing my desire to move against the work involved, was intense. I had to get out of a long rental agreement that I was only a few months into. I had to find a new place to live that met the criteria for my family and I to live in. I had two kids that would require changing schools. I had a full-time job at the opposite end of the town that would increase travel time and fuel cost. I was going to night school, which meant that I would still have to return to the city once a week for classes. I also had to include the legal modifications that needed to be worked out with the courts due to parental visiting time with their father and such.

Boy, thinking about all the duties, obligations and work mounting before me was enough to make anyone feel slightly overwhelmed. However, giving the thought of moving a couple more weeks to stew in my mind, I established a game-plan, if you will. Within three months of coming to the surety that I was supposed to move, I had accomplished, without negative recourse, a new home, new renters for the old rental, a new school for the boys, a new job, the legal documentation completed and a schedule for my education.

By looking at the “Big Picture of what was required to make this move happen, I could have succumbed to the inundation of the whole change being too much to handle or deal with. But, by sorting out the step-by-step process of what became the priority duty to handle first and establishing a basic working plan, I was able to achieve the many tasks before me, seemingly effortlessly.

So, on that note, the quoted of the day is:

“When something is right for your life, you may be presented with a narrow passageway in which to travel but everything will fall into place.” tc

A Divine Center

As a student of the world, I am constantly observing, piecing together and analyzing the various aspects of life. It is interesting to me to take-in the external differences that each individual displays. Some people seem shy, others gregarious and many are just going-through-the motions of living. With such diverse and varied cultures, many of these personality types, which on the surface seem pretty similar, are even more sundry, when viewed through different cultural lenses.

If we were to untangle the mixed perspectives of religion, remove the overbearing voice of politics and unlocked the habitual practices of culture, what lies at the center? People. People are influenced by religion, politics and their culture but they are NOT those things. At the very center of every single person on the planet is a warm, loving, helpful soul, who has a beautiful light to shine with everyone else. Unfortunately, the mess of stuff around one creates such fear that oftentimes, the light is squeezed away so that all that can be seen is darkness.

So, on that note, the quote of the day is:

“The flavor of life is experienced when we are able to appreciate the unique richness of the whole, manifested in an assorted blend of mottled distinction.” tc