Its been nearly a year since I last wrote a blog entry. Although I’ve been silent on my blog it doesn’t mean that nothing has been happening. Actually far from it ~ Anyway to get things started, I’d thought I’d write about something very important to me this year.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my spiritual direction lately. I guess watching my health go into decline and then slowly recover has put me in a position to be more aware about my life and all that is happening around me which includes family and friends and all the other elements that make up my life.
Although life is like a box of chocolates, according to Forest Gump, I’m really beginning to learn to take things a lot easier and to realise that the people we come to know and love are just like us. Full of issues, imperfect and strive for the same thing as we all do. And if we find ourselves craving love and it shows up on our front door in a package we least expect then I think we should thank our lucky stars that we have some kind of love at all.
So here I am pondering the mysteries of life. I’m grateful for what I have and although I have all the insecurities under the sun, knowing that the sun rises again the next day, gives me that little extra bout of hope in my life.
Over the past, I guess, 6 months, I developed a rather interesting relationship among an old friend and bonded very closely to a new friend. Both people have now become significant and important people in my life; I have come to see them as the following characters:
Courage - I have come to know someone who has changed my life and the way I look at things in this world. He, alike me, has all the issues under the sun, but in someway life brought us together that we started to ask and reflect about the meaning of life. In doing so I discovered that he is trying his best to cope with being separated from his family. So I try to encourage him on his journey. I then came up with the image of courage for him, for myself and for all that we do in our lives. He said to me that he and I are on a spiritual journey and coming to know each other has helped his life become a lot easier. He is now officially part of my life and my soul brother. Have you ever heard of the cliché ‘soul mate?’ we’ll I told him he is my soul mate. Then we came to agree on a much higher relationship ‘soul brother’. And so it is at this that we are who we are. When I think about this in the quiet moments of my life I sit there and smile with a big grin on my face and say to myself ‘ Thank you Courage’.
Heart - Another friend, closely connected to my friend Courage, is also struggling with much in her life. Nonetheless as I started to see and understand her story I realised her heart was dying. She was loosing herself and hope in herself. And after 
learning more I saw that she had lost heart. She had lost heart and is now on the journey to finding herself again. So therefore I want to help her on her quest to find a new heart again. So this is why I came up with the word heart for her. She is definitely a first class act in all that she does. Life for her is about people and being there in their need. She is definitely a woman of heart. I hope and pray that she will find strength in herself to rebuild her heart. In the mean time she tries not to let Courage demand too much from her. Their relationship is deeply rooted in history but alas Heart is finding her voice again and Courage is learning to accept what he cannot change. I honestly feel things will be fine for them in the future.
Enlightenment – As for myself. I’ve been seriously thinking about my spiritual journey. I asked my friend of Courage if he thought I would make a good priest. He told me that I shouldn’t think of it in that way. He said that if you become a priest its a good thing nonetheless. You will only be a good priest by becoming one. Its a sign of the journey you have been on already. I then asked him if I would make a good monk? He said same thing. Being a Priest or a Monk is a clear indication that it wasn’t by accident this happen, it was because of the journey I have travelled. I smiled at him and realised that my friend of Courage is truly a good man.
As I started a new journey of being kinder to myself this year and following my heart again, I then began to see a truly beautiful thing. My friend of Courage, and my friend of Heart and myself,found a strong bond in each other. I then realised that Courage, Heart, and Enlightenment go together. We need these three important aspects of ourselves to truly find the real meaning of life and to understand the spiritual journey we are on.
So what of the future in this bond. We’ll I do know that becoming a priest or a monk is definitely a reality in my life. Many friends have told me that I am a priest already. I don’t need to look the part, it was always there in everything that I do. And as for being a Monk, it only adds to the spiritual journey I am already on.
Courage. Heart. Enlightenment. It sounds like characters from a children’s story, but in reality its only the beginning of a new chapter in my life and lives of those I have come to know and love.
