How Does it Translate?

I 've been working on this one for about a week and think I have it now.  Instead of my writing about two different lives, I now say the first 42 years of my life prepared me for the next 30 years.  This is how I see it.  I have had two lives.  Anything prior to my experience with my Spirit Guides were just preparation for what was to come.  Before I lived with belief and after I had limited knowledge.  So, whenever I reminisce about the past, especially going back to the 50's and 60's, all that was preparation for what was to come.

I wanted to write about my two lives, but really I've said a lot about them.  It was Thanksgiving night in 1993 when everything changed.  And I simply cannot forget.  I don't mind re-visiting the past, and as I said in my post the other day, I listen to a lot of music from about the mid-60's to the mid-70's.  That whole decade brought the world the best in pop culture.  There was just so much good music produced during this time period.  I've pretty much kept the music and apart from wife and family, I've discarded much of my old life.

I relax a lot while smoking my pipe, but I'm thinking if my Spirit Guides want me to do more, I'm ready.  I've needed the quiet time for meditation.  But maybe my life will be divided into thirds with a new adventure coming.  But I don't think too far ahead as it is important to focus on the now.  Before my Spirit Guides I didn't see a future.  But then I found out why.  There is no way I could have envisioned the next 30 years.

My old life came to and end.  I can't say it any other way.  No matter how I see things in my old life, they all prepared me for a new life.  College and seminary were preparations.  My having grown up in the Church was a preparation.  Successes and failures were just preparations.  But what I kept from my old life was wife and family.  They had to be witnesses to the change.  I was literally transformed in one night.

Little did I know that I'd still be waiting 30 years later.  But through it all I learned patience.  I didn't know some things my Guides told me would apply in 30 years.  In fact, I applied many things along the way.  I wouldn't have made it through two brushes with death without them.  And my brushes with death weren't for myself, but for others to believe.  And I'll do whatever it takes for others to believe.

I might not have fears, and although I might worry, I couldn't have come this far without my Guides.  As my wife says, I can worry.  But then I ponder life without my Guides and simply say without them, I wouldnt have made it this far.  But with them, life is limitless.  And that is why I smoke a pipe.  I never want to forget.  My pipe this morning is my Sunday morning Angel pipe I save for Sunday's. My tobacco is Old Professor and my  coffee is Guatamalan coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave