Across the Miles

As I get to know a knew friend from an online spirituality group across the miles (12,000 miles away in fact) I love exploring with her all my feelings, fears, doubts and experiences that have brought me to where I am as well as the things I stand for in life. I find so many people are searching for this same freedom, albeit a path speckled with challenges every day. I love my life and I appreciate it even more when fed back to me through the eyes of another. I see how profoundly lucky I am to be so happy, so free, so much the author of my own book of life. My life before was so driven: driven by obligation, expectation and denied fear.

I was not an especially unhappy person before in terms of everyday life. Indeed, people often used to comment that I was always smiling and seemed happy but if you scratched the surface it was a different story. But I thought it was normal and that it would always be that way. Now that I know it need not be and that I can, with practice, choose how my life looks, I am so happy. What I have now I can enjoy more and yet I can delight even further when the next level is achieved, and so on indefinitely. Above all, what I have is hope and faith - hope for my dreams and faith that they will come true and that I am so very blessed and protected by the universe.

If I sometimes forget, it is never for long. I am soon back on track, especially when I do that exercise I mentioned in the piece I posted yesterday entitled “Spiritual Freedom - Refinements” (connecting with the universe frequently throughout my day by bringing my attention to it).

As I share these things and many others with my new friend I get a sense of joy and wonderment as I realise how much there is I have experienced and how helpful it has all been, if also painful at times as well. My friend tells me she is learning a lot from me but I too get so much out of getting to know her in this way: reassurance that my words can reach and touch people; reassurance that I am on the right track as the joy in sharing things with her is profound and I look forward to hearing from her with relish.

I hope it may help her but that is not what I set out to do as it would be patronising and hardly the basis for friendship - I simply share who I am and open my heart to her as she does with me. Whatever else may follow is but part of a bigger plan of the universe but all I need do is be open and enjoy the exchange for what it is: two people on a similar journey getting to explore friendship and to see what is available out of being open, such are the wonders of modern technology that allow this to take place at all. What I feel from her is openness, frankness, love, generosity of spirit and a desire to expand who she is. It is really quite special and gives me hope that a new age is indeed possible as I watch others bravely go beyond their known world in search for something altogether better.