Transmutation

Realize that the problems and challenges that you may encounter in life are not you, but rather they are but obstacles on your journey.  Each journey is unique just as each soul is a unique expression of God.

There has been much written about these challenges and much discussion as to whether they are a result of karma or a challenge given to you by your creator or simply the role of the dice.

As a river flows downstream it encounters many obstacles, some may man-made such as dams or pollution or land laid waste.  Other obstacles may simply be part of nature… a cliff, a forest, a boulder or even a fire.  The river simply flows (as it is in its very nature to do so)… not judging as to why the obstacles are there.  The river is one with all of nature.  The river is a source of life, of goodness.

If you chose to explore a newly discovered land, you too would face many challenges.  Yet, you would not wonder if those challenges were a result of karma or placed there by some great deity.  You would simply see it as part of your journey.  So as you have chosen various pathways you have ended up with various experiences.  It is just as likely that if you had chosen a different pathway you may have had a shorter journey or you might not have met those who bring so much joy into your life.

Each soul’s journey is filled with challenges.  The challenges may appear great or appear to be miniscule.  Sometimes you face challenges that on some level may be considered unjust… humanity in its lack of kinship with nature has wrought many a problem and disease.  This is humanity’s lesson to learn and choose to either resolve or not.

Do not identify with your challenges; instead know that all challenges are in reality only temporary… even if they are there to the end of your journey.  For at journey’s end they are no longer with you as you return to your oneness with God or as some choose to say you enter heaven’s gates. 

So is despair or resignation your only choice when faced with horrific challenges?  I would encourage you instead to take a two-fold approach.  First through the practices of prayer and meditation… the “ying and yang” of your spiritual be-ing-ness, let go and let God. Through prayer let your deepest desires, concerns, fears and joys flow outward.  Empty your heart. 

Then through meditation, attune to your spirit-self, to your God-self, to the source of all life. Allow God’s graces to flow through you. As you meditate you will find that your awareness of be-ing-ness is changing.  You will find that you are experiencing your one-ness with all of life-source.  This is the experience of transmutation of changing from one state to another.

Know that as you experience this changing; these transmutations from a human awareness to a spiritual awareness… the challenges in your life are being transmuted as well.  You will find spiritual wisdom, peace and joy coming from these experiences.  You may ask, “How can this be?”  Think of what happens when coal is burned.  A handful of coal by itself may bring little delight.  However, when you burn it, it is being transmuted.  The coal becomes both light and warmth.

Lastly, do not allow these challenges to keep you from your heart’s desires.  Just as a river does not allow a boulder or even a dam to keep it from flowing to the sea, do not allow them to keep you from that which you desire. Seek and you shall find… knock and it will be opened.

Peace is with you and in you. You bring joy to many.