As I reflected back on my experience as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in The Philippines and a very insightful trip to The Botanical Garden in La Union I realized that as we awaken spiritually we must change our scenery from time to time. I remember the day I ventured to the Botanical Garden it was extremely hot and the walk from the center of San Fernando was about 6 KM( 4 miles). I was alone but along the way I was able to stop and engage with some of the local Filipinos and they all said the same thing it is a long walk here is some tubig (water). I took the water and drank it and as I walked I realized just how lucky I was to have the opportunity to do something that showed that the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations. I arrived at The Botanical Garden and as I walked the garden grounds and saw some great sites I sat on the bench pictured here and really began to understand that if I want to things to change I had to change. As I rode in the jeepney down the mountain all I could think of was how a change of scenery can positively affect your attitude. It was at that point that I realized that sometimes all it takes is a change of scenery to change the way things are going in your life. I finished my service with the Peace Corps in February 2003 and here it is 13 1/2 years later that I find myself using this lesson to enhance my personal, professional, and spiritual life.
Where I live now we have a big lake and in some areas around the lake there are benches to sit and just enjoy being out in nature. On days when it is clear and I get off work early or have a day off I will find myself walking around the lake and then sitting on a bench and sitting in quiet reflection or talking with GOD. Sometimes I find myself speaking with my mom who was called home to GOD on July 5, 2012. When reflecting or communicating with GOD, my mom, and other angels I find myself getting a new way of looking at things. I have found that when doing this I am able to release the negative feelings that create blockages and hold me back from evolving and creating the life I want.
Today’s entry is inspired by the idea that sometimes you have to simply unburden yourself of worry and simply ease on down the road to truly experience a spiritual awakening. In the last few weeks I have been fundraising for The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Sunrise, FL I was doing what the messages from GOD were telling me to do and acting with love in my heart. Doing this created some challenges as some people will find something to complain about and not understand that complaining only brings negativity into their life. GOD likes a cheerful giver and rewards those who work to be of service and value to others. I have learned over time that it is necessary to simply take a deep breath, process the information, and ease on down the road. I have come to understand that not everyone is going to resonate and positively react to your message. Since my spiritual awakening I have come in contact with many people that simply do not understand the greater good and are quick to point fingers and blame others. They are so into complaining that they loose the opportunities to enhance their personal, professional, and spiritual life. It is important to understand that while you journey along your spiritual path and continue to evolve into a better person that there will be those who try to stop you. When you encounter these people it is vital that you ease on down the road.
As you ease on down the road you will find that the road is long and winding and there will be some speed bumps along the way and some curves to straighten out that are messages from GOD. These messages will come in all forms as you ease on down the road so be alert and prepared to act on the messages. Remember when you hit a speed bump to slow down and take a breath and see what the next step is that GOD has planned for you. In the trials and tribulations that we face are lessons and from these lessons we grow personally, professionally, and spiritually. When we slow down and realize that if GOD brought us to it GOD will bring us through it. When we ease on down the road and we let go and let GOD we find that we attract more peace, love, joy, and prosperity into our lives. When we are of service and value and come straight from the heart we are going to encounter those that will not understand us. It is in these situations that we must understand that when it is all said and doe and we stand for judgement the only thing that will matter is that you honored and praised GOD through your actions to leave the world a little better than you found it. It is when you can face things with out anger and understand the perspective from where others are coming from that you can better solve the challenge and ease on down the road. In life there will be times when you must release the people, places, and things that no longer serve you and simply ease on down the road.
Most of the roads I travel take me back to GOD’s door and when I knock it is always answered it is answered with much love ad GOD loves us all and wants to show us love so we can show others love and put then on a path to personal and spiritual growth so that we can share our journey with others and have them share in our peace, love, joy, and prosperity. As we travel our road we can create a oneness consciousness as long as our actions on these roads lead us to praise and honor GOD. In honoring GOD through prayer and praise we widen the road and enhance the path to GOD and thus secure a place in his kingdom that helps us to grow in mind, body, and spirit and thus enables us to be of service and value to others. Sometime we must take it slow and ease on down the road and remove our burdens so that GOD can carry us through his messages that he is constantly giving to us. Sometimes GOD’s messages come in the form of traffic jams, detours, and closed road giving us an opportunity to learn patience, or choose a new and better path, or simply shutting the things out of our life that no longer serve us. In staying on the road that lead’s to GOD’S House we are given the tools and opportunities to grow and prosper.
In easing down the road and stopping to rest we often find that the answers we were seeking were not in the outside world but were inside of us all the time. In easing down the road and heeding GOD’S messages we get in touch with ur inner divinity and thus can share our divinity with others and bring them along on our journey so that not only is our life improved but the lives of others are improved. In taking a time out to ease on down the road while being centered and balanced we open up many channels to receive the messages that are intended to help us create a joyous and prosperous life. There will be trials and tribulations as we ease on down the road but those meant to be of positive assistance will be sent to us and thus everything will be greater as we are guided by GOD’S Love as we ease on down the road. In easing on down our road we must understand that all we seek and all we desire has already been provided for us it is duty to claim that which serves us and eliminate that which does not serve us.
GOD has provided us with the tools we need to create a positive life for ourselves. It is up to us to open the door that we find when we ease on down the road. All we need is inside of us and it has been there from the beginning of time. We must not look at what we do not have and what others have but what we must look at is all that GOD has given us and how we are going to use GOD’S Gifts to lead us and thus make our world and the world around us a better place. Our lives are like a highway with many exits and many times we must take a different exit so that we can find out who we truly are. Sometimes we must change our plans and just let things flow knowing that with GOD as our co-pilot everything will work out. I begin my daily journey by saying thank you and reciting that all things are possible through Christ who strengthens me. As I do this most of my days are joyful and prosperous. There have been some accidents along my highway but each one contatined an important lesson and each lesson learned has helped me to grow in spirit and understand that I have a purpose to help other people excel and that when people are ready to join me on my road they will and then I will be able to drive my highway all night long.