By any chance, are you going to participate in the Ultimate Blog Challenge at http://www.ultimateblogchallenge.com? I’m going to and I plan to try to read as many participating blogs as I can. I would love to read this blog every day!!

Jeanine

Thank you, thank you and keep on writing Amy! I think maybe we need you!!

I know I do,

Sue

But that doesn’t last long. As you point out, the spiritual path is NOT an easy breezy one. It certainly hasn’t been for me, nor for those you name in your beautiful comment. I am often caught, even (and perhaps, especially) when I am doing spiritual work) in doubt, and I often lose my way. It’s the memory of that bliss – of having felt it and known it, however briefly – that inspires me to keep walking.

This post is intended as a spark – a call to consider that everything we do has a bit of mission in it. And that every day of our ordinary lives we may find ourselves walking on the path of purpose.

It seems to me as I look at the lives of people who have made a great spiritual impact that it might not be the case that they were “happy,” or that their lives were full of “happiness,” at least in the way most of us use the word happy most of the time. In fact, it seems to me that people who have made a great impact have often lived lives that were difficult, and that they might seldom have described themselves as “happy.” I think of Van Gogh; Mandela in prison; countless martyrs who have laid down their lives in defiance of dictators or injustice.

I DO think that if we choose toward Love, we will find a satisfying life– Love will draw us toward others, toward those places in All That Is that need our contribution. It will, one hopes, be satisfying and will cause us to feel happy– but perhaps it won’t. I think Mother Teresa’s recently released diaries show that even as she comforted tens of thousands and offered them all that love could offer, she herself felt distant from the Divine and empty of personal joy nearly all the time.

I think we hope that choosing toward Love will create Happiness within us– but I think that the example of those we could easily admire and wish to emulate shows us that whether or not it makes us happy, we are to always choose toward Love.

Blessings! Keep up the good work– your thoughts always provoke me to think, and wonder.

Allen

Ofcourse, ofcourse, ofcourse – >>>> one choice at a time, you begin to develop your life consciously<<<<

LOVELY! like the author herself!

THANK YOU!