Reminders

I'm choosing to remind myself today that I am a divine creature (did you ever doubt it?) with a divine purpose - even if I don't always know how to describe what it is. If, as I believe, I create what I think, then I had better get with the program and think positively.

Generally I'm a pretty positive person but I have allowed myself to get off my center lately and I can feel the results. So this evening I sat down with crayons and paper and drew what I think my core being looks like. This isn't the me who walks the street in shoes and a hat. This is the me that I come back to when I have to choose a direction in life. Either/or decisions are not so difficult. I have trouble with the ones where the road seems to have evaporated and I have to decide whether to stay put or set off in some direction across the desert.

Always alert to 'signs' from my 'higher self', I sat down and read an article that Ruth sent me today from SOLARA. It started out by describing just what I'm feeling today:

"During the final days of July and the first few days of August, everything came to a seeming halt. It felt as if the track we had been riding upon for a long time was suddenly dismantled. We could travel no further on the old track and had to wait until the new titanium express track was ready for us. ..."

I realize that not everyone is feeling this, but I have been. The article reminded me to go inside myself and find my center, or my core, once again. Not bad advice. Not that it means I don't need to do anything else of course, but it's a good place to start when I wobble.

Next I drew a graphic representation of what I'd like to have in my life. Pictures force me to get away from words and therefore to focus on the grander scale of things and not the minutia. And since paid work, or the present lack of it, is critical right now, I drew a picture of me working. I called it 'be-doing' because I think it should combine being and doing - since I'm a human being and not a human doing AND I like to be doing something that gives me satisfaction.

All very interesting. I have to say that I feel more centered now. I had great support from my mother, Zoe, Janet, Ruth and the coffee clutch today. Thank God for friends.

This is also a good time for me to remind myself of my life-long guiding principles:

• do unto others
• leave things as I find them, or better
• always do the best I can with what I have
• share
• do no harm
• be grateful for the blessings that come my way
• graciously accept help when it is offered
• speak the truth as I know it
• be open to learning
• respect myself and others
• there is no such thing as coincidence
• you never know what good things are around the corner
• we never encounter anything in life without being given the resources as well
• I have everything I need to know within my grasp
• we are all connected to one another so we are truly our brother's/sister's keeper
• I am much more than will fit into my tiny earth body
• I am never alone
• helping others is a great privilege
• I am what I believe
• the world is full of opportunities
• energy cannot be destroyed
• linear time is an illusion
• love heals
• you get back what you put out - multiplied
• everything is perfect, given the right perspective

I don't mean any of this to be schmaltzy. To me it's very practical. I see everything on this list as its energy equivalent. I'm sure I'll think of more to add to it but this is good for starters. Well, I feel better already.