A Spiritual Journey

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 Okay, I'm an old guy, but I believe God isn't finished with me yet.  In fact, I may just be getting started.  Some might wonder how I can say this after some 30 years.  It's because I have not forgotten.  I spend time smoking my pipe so I won't forget.  And I have my reminders.  They come in many forms and not even my wife let's me forget.  I am far from perfected as I am still human, but while I seem to just sit around smoking my pipe I spend a lot of time with my thoughts AND my feelings.

It is often said that salvation isn't based on feelings.  I understand this perfectly, but when I am connected to my Spirit Guides, I feel their Peace and love.  But that feeling comes in many forms.  Life has its own stresses, but as I've said before here, stress is an enemy of mine, but it sometimes can't be avoided.  But my Spirit Guides care more about my feelings than they do my thoughts.  I can think many things, because I have a very active mind.  

This is why I write.  I'm always thinking of something.  Our thoughts CAN influence how we feel.  If we think the world is going to hell in a handbasket, so to speak, we won't feel good about such thinking.  But sometimes I can reach a point where I can say I just don't care if it does.  Such thinking can then make me say that it won't.  But how do I know?  That is what faith can do, because when I feel strong, I simply don't care.  I can compare my life to others and become depressed.

But that depression goes away if I can say that I don't care.  Maybe if the world goes to hell in a handbasket I won't care enough if it does.  Not caring is the key.  But of course I care about family.  And there are things I CAN care about.  But if I give people to my Spirit Guides, as I so often do, I can say they are out of my hands.  This is when I say of myself that I might be too heavenly-minded.  

I will admit I can be not focused on the the the things of this world.  This is why balance is so important.  Always enough, but not too much.  This is Balance.  I smoke my pipe enough, but not too much.  Everything in life is about Balance and focusing on the now.  I am on this earth right now as I am writing this.  Right now is what matters most.  So, I focus on the right now.  I have done this with my Spirit Guides caring just enough, but not too much.  

Everything is about caring just enough.  I know I have said this in other posts here, but often I write for myself.  Everything requires just enough care.  That includes the others in our lives.  Are there things I wish I had done differently?  Sure there is.  But regret?  No.  I learn and go forward from here.  And there are things out of my control.  This is where I rely on my Spirit Guides.  

So, it might seem as though I sit around and smoke my pioe a lot, but I'm connecting to my Spirit Guides when I do.  And really, in my thinking it's not a waste of time.  Meditation can do a lot for one's soul, body, and Spirit.  I'm smoking my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe this morning with my Captain Black Original and drinking Stumptown Holler Mountain coffee.  I thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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