January 6, 2009

Good Morning Friends,

Today may be cold and brisk ( or down right freezing your tush off), none the less it is great to be alive so I start each morning with a brief salutation. I have a choice when I get up, and that is to choose joy or sorrow, to live in the moment or to look for a better tomorrow. Those of you who already know me get it. So I choose joy, I mean I say out loud ( much to the surprise of my bed mate Fern), I choose joy, I choose to live in the moment. It is not that I am not concerned about tomorrow, it is just if we live in the moment, not the day but this moment, we don't miss out on the true pleasures of life, we get to squeeze every last drop, both spiritual and material, leaving no room for regrets.

You may remember from my Facebook post a few weeks past that this life we live is really a journey, kind of a spiritual road trip. As with all road trips you need to be prepared for what may lay ahead while enjoying every moment of the ride. But what you don't bring, what you can never, ever take with you are the Twins, regret and guilt. Now for many of us we grew up with the Twins. We ate with them, slept with them, played and studied with them. They were certainly the favorites of my parents. The funny thing is that no matter what faith or background you claim as your own, the Twins were part of your family life. The twins are the excess baggage you schlep around, weighing you down, like a cloud on your brain, preventing you from ever finding true peace and happiness and of course the whole point of this, Joy!

So dust off the snow on your spiritual vehicle and get ready for the ride of your life. Buckle up, but not too tight or you may just limit your joy. At first you may just be learning to take charge of your life, that is fine, really it is ok. You will be the passenger until you feel ready or until your Guide pushes you to this decision. For that purpose I have provided you with a driver of sorts, a guide if you will. Let's call him Irv. Irv has been around many lifetimes in our way of seeing the world. He will help shepherd you thru the first part of this road trip and will alert you to the warning signs along the way. Now he can not, will not make decisions as to which way to turn or go, but what he is here is to show alternatives and to give a chance to think about what you may do or where you may want to travel. Of course you already understand this, if you decide to go this way, you will encounter this or that, the thing is to be prepared ( spiritually) for your choices.

Your life after all is a series of choices set before you, like a book you are writing, a series of chapters that make up your life, change the ending change the whole story. Same for your road trip, change your direction, change where you will go, pretty simple huh! So don't worry about your choices just yet, you need to get comfortable with this change of living, living proactively and not reactively. What I mean is you need to meet life on your terms, not the other way around. And even though life will try and throw you a few curves now and then, who cares, it is the curves and uncertainty that makes life interesting. Now you don't really want a boring life of complete certainty do you. Of course not, the curves on the road like the ebb and flow of the waves that may make you a little uncomfortable at first, ( or down right nauseous), but what the heck, life was not meant for a smooth, straight driving experience. Your life should be fun and exciting. At times you may yearn for that smooth, straight forward route, well ok, it is your choice always, so go ahead, take a safer, uneventful route, or may be your just need a a rest stop. Maybe you are getting a bit ahead of yourself, it is perfectly fine to just slow down and take the measure or figure out which way the winds are blowing. What I am saying is, there is no right or wrong way to journey thru life, the best we can do is to learn from our mistakes, embrace them and move forward or sometimes laterally, life is just like that sometimes.

Have a joyful day, and always remember you are valued and loved by so many and that your absence is a void in someones life.

Robb

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