"An Inward Journey With Outward Consequences"

At 5:34 am this morning the words "an inward journey with outward consequences" came to me in answer to a prayer and meditation that began at about 4:20 am.

My prayer and meditation was based upon my questioning the path I'm on, for most people measure their lives by their activities as I used to do.

For most people, that is work, home buying and car buying, child rearing, school and travel. For me it was each of those things on a grand scale.

But with time and age and extensive readings and contemplation my priorities have changed. More recently through prayer and meditation I've been seeking a connection with my higher self, the spiritual being that is the real me.

This is a process of self-realization.

In this process I've been receiving messages that transcend me and I publish them as "Author Unknown" as I'm unsure which spiritual being is the author.

But I also receive messages that guide me and I note them as well, as I repeatedly return to those messages and strive to put them into practice.

My problem is that prayer and meditation and subsequent writings or actions have yet to bring me consistent inner peace.

But it brings love and joy to my heart each time I do something that brings happiness or benefit to others, the writings or acts in themselves being their own reward.

This sense of its own reward is particularly so when I make charitable or blood donations, anonymous to the recipients.

Perhaps at this stage of my life I'm being impatient with the unfolding of my life's purpose, wishing it could be faster and more apparent, leading to a greater sense of accomplishment and with it, inner peace.

But among the things I've learned over my 69 years of this life is that everything has been as it was meant to be and in the time it was meant to happen.

I believe each living being has spiritual guides to lead and protect them but that they do so within the confines of one's karma, the lessons each being is meant to learn in this life.

When I heard the words, "an inward journey with outward consequences," they brought me peace as a reaffirmation that my path and timing are as they are meant to be, and to allow the journey to proceed as destiny determines.

Dick