Re: Well Lori...

Hi, Boldyloxx

Well, I assure you that if it were up to me and my ego to consciously decide how giving I would be to others in this lifetime, it wouldn't be that much! At least that would be the current consensus, although it's changing.

I don't think it's necessary for us to suffer to realize happiness but suffering does offer us huge lessons. It's all so personal and subjective and just what avenues we've chosen to learn through. I think all of our places are honored and it just comes down to what our place in the group is and honoring that. There are doctors and teachers and cooks and nannies and mechanics and artists and cleaners and people-persons and countless others: they are all divine roles.

I myself am learning through many painful ones, isolation, loneliness, emotional ignorance and denial, denial of my divinity, lack, the list goes on. But I can't look at it negatively, or even that I'm to blame for some reason or that it's 'lesser'. It's just the way it's happened so far. It takes time to experience and learn. There's a bigger picture involved. Then there's the environment - and I don't just mean locally. We are now all being supported to remember the path back to our true nature, if we so decide to travel it.

We are all takers. It is nature. We must be able to provide for ourselves before we can offer anything to the community. That's what we're doing now: finding ourselves, healing and aligning and providing for ourselves. It's pretty much been back to square one for me. Back to basics and recreating a life for myself. The challenging part is - I already have a life! haha

That's a heartwarming story about the Indonesian orphanage. I heard most of the people lost in the tsunami were children - they were so giving. Thanks for sharing.

Lori