Being In Friendship With Everything

Every once in a while its good to try and connect with the people you have known in the past. I am usually reminded to do this when I am suddenly, out of the blue, catapulted back into the past either through a dream, old diaries, photographs, or a common friend, etc. etc. There are so many ways to find ourselves walking backwards if we want to. Sometimes I like to and I do so with no expectations whatsoever. Sometimes I am most pleasantly surprised and sometimes I am most certainly not. Either way, the very prospect of reconnecting is fun no matter what the outcome. Sometimes I am lucky enough to meet up with a new side to the old friends I never even knew existed and sometimes, as luck would have it, some people are still exactly where I left them ('consciousnessly' speaking!). They have not moved an inch since my last encounter which could have been perhaps ten years ago! I marvel at their courage and bravery to choose to stay stuck in the old and the sameness of life albeit unconsciously.

However, all experiences bring in a wealth of understanding of ourselves at a deeper level. Without the experience of meeting and knowing such a variety of people in life, it would be impossible to live a full and rich life. With every 'unfortunate' experience, I have simultaneously encountered an equally fortunate one. So the scales are always balanced. What I am learning now is that it is extremely important to view everything and everyone with a certain degree of friendship and deep listening. When I approach people or circumstances with the idea of befriending them and listening to them deeply, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is creating space for an inner engagement, and something new and vital, and every pleasant encounter enables me to keep my heart wide open to receive and embrace everything that is larger than me and connected to Love and Wisdom. Our friendship with experience opens us up to the wisdom of life and love on Earth. Indeed, what a great place to be in - physically, emotionally and spiritually. 

May all our lives continue to be enriched in the most loving and deepest way possible and may we always hold that warm place and space in our hearts for everything and everyone.

In Love & Friendship,

L xo

Trusting the Unknown.

When we make a firm decision to trust that the only thing that really ever matters in Life is God, and that we are going to be committed to this Trust, everything in life - (and I mean literally everything) -  just begins to fall into perfection. No human mind can ever match the workings of the Unseen.  

At first Trusting the Unknown begins to raise a bit of anxiety, but I have realised what really is unknown is not some scary stuff, but literally a re-interpretion  of my life by making brand new, out-of-my-comfort-zone choices that will result in deep inner transformation and dropping the ones that don't work any longer. The Unknown begins to feel less and less intimidating when we begin to mindfully look at each situation and  use our free will to choose a new outcome.

When we are challenged to create a new map for our lives, there's a lot of "pushing against"  that begins to take place and though it may be easier to give up and go back to the old, that's exactly the moment that can become life changing if we go with the flow of change no matter how radical it is and no matter how uncomfortable it may feel at first. Prayer and meditation become the most important valuable practices that can take us further along the journey of change and transformation. The result of such effort is rewarded with a sweet and calm peace within.

L xo