What's the lesson?

Lessons in Life

“Awareness, God, whatever you want to call it, is beyond time and concept.  This is the Ground of Being.  Souls explode out of awareness like little Big Bangs.  The Soul’s relationship to Awareness is like child to mother.  The clear light of Awareness is what the Soul yearns to return to.  Ripening into God is the Soul’s journey.”

                                                  Ram Dass

                                                  From: Still Here

“From the perception of the multi-sensory human, the physical world is a learning environment that is created jointly by the souls who share it, and everything that occurs within it serves their learning.”

                                                  Gary Zukav

                                                  From: The Seat of the Soul

          My next door neighbor died yesterday.  She was diagnosed with advanced Alzheimer’s disease in her mid-fifties, about ten years ago.  We have watched her steady decline in spite of the best medicine science has to offer.  To the external world, it seems tragic that this relatively young woman, who was vibrant and eccentric in her prime, should have changed so dramatically in such a short period of time.  I have learned to wonder, not why such a seeming tragedy happens, but instead, what is the lesson?

          I believe with Ram Dass, that our soul lives on beyond this lifetime.  We come from God and we return to God, and in between, we have many opportunities to grow our consciousness and expand our awareness.   Furthermore, we have a particular lesson that we are here to learn; that our soul has agreed to learn.  My particular task in this lifetime seems to be ‘trust.’  Trust God, trust my fellow humans, and trust myself.  Trust, too, that I am loved and that I am capable of loving others.  Trust that life will provide.

If I were to ask you, “What is your soul’s lesson?” you could articulate it quite clearly.  That is because, deep within, at the level of our soul, we carry the awareness of our task from birth to death.  Life gives us opportunities to field test, to experiment with it.  Sometimes we learn the lesson and sometimes we don’t.  Sometimes our personality gets in the way of our soul’s work. 

Today is a good day to ponder, what is the lesson my soul has agreed to learn in this life?  How am I doing? 

                                       

                                                  In the spirit,

                                                  Jane