At A Crossroads With Destiny

Hello,

I invite you to just settle into this space where you're at right now.

Perhaps you're going for a walk or you're just sitting and relaxing,

Enjoying your breath as I read to you from a blog post on Inspired Living.

This one is about being at a crossroads with destiny.

I'll share some of my defining moments that may help to inspire you to reflect on what kind of moments you've had in your life where you had to practice discernment and make a choice about what direction to go and what might be the higher path to take.

See,

The beginning of transformation is often a spiritual crisis or awakening that brings us awareness of what our soul needs.

At this crossroads with destiny,

You can start choosing ways that are life supportive for you or live life by default.

To keep on the spiritual path,

It's important to focus on what nurtures,

Heals,

And guides you to fully engage in the highest expression of yourself,

Your gifts,

And your abilities.

There have been many defining moments in my close to 50 years on this earth walk and I'll share three of the most significant with you.

Where I was at a crossroads with destiny.

The first one,

The stop sign.

I was in a marriage with a partner who was ill,

Sick with chronic pain and addiction and whom I loved at the time and wanted to support through those struggles.

I also worked two jobs,

Took care of the home and the pets,

And didn't really participate in anything outside of those daily routines.

That relationship really took its toll as it became more and more dysfunctional.

I was overstressed and feeling powerless to change the situation.

Have you ever been in a relationship like that?

In my moment of desperation for peace,

I left.

I took one item that was the most important to me in case I never returned,

Got in my car,

And drove to the end of the road.

I stopped at the stop sign,

Wondering which way to turn.

Where was I going to go?

I had not thought of that.

Just that I needed to leave.

Oftentimes,

It's only the first step that we can clearly see.

And once we take it,

That next one appears,

And then the next one,

And so on.

We get to where we need to go because we steer ourselves in that direction and do not always know every detail.

I found myself turning back to my higher power and asking for guidance,

To be guided in the way I should go to feel safe and then be led to the next step.

I had faith that a companion spirit was with me,

Leading me every step of the way.

And this was the beginning stage of transformation.

Accepting what is.

In the summer,

Between the third and fourth year of university,

I received devastating news that my father had passed away.

I remember circling my bike in the middle of the road,

Wondering whether to return home or stay and complete my studies,

Literally circling around with what I should do.

The decision to return home seemed best at the time.

And so before leaving the university,

I asked for my three-year degree,

Feeling slightly unsure if I would ever return to finish my fourth-year honours degree in my thesis and didn't want to leave without having earned something.

I was granted that degree,

Honoured the space to breathe and heal and help my mother.

I later returned to my honours degree,

Actually,

With a very different focus for my thesis.

And life is like that.

It pivots,

Shapes and shifts our perception of reality.

Taking time to recognise what lessons,

Gifts and growth comes from any life-defining experiences is paramount.

It's a bridge to what was,

Is and becoming and allows a realignment to our soul's purpose.

I love this Taoist saying,

Just stay at the centre of the circle and let all things take their course.

It just allows the feeling of surrender and to have faith.

My third defining moment was,

Well,

Why leave a good thing?

See,

I had a fantastic yet demanding job,

Helping well over 100 people on my caseload that needed all kinds of resources and support,

Held under an umbrella of a government corporation.

I valued the mission to make a difference to every person,

Every day,

And set an intention to get people who were lost in the system out.

Many of them succeeded in new goals that they set once they knew that someone cared about whether or not they did.

At the same time,

I was feeling constricted in working in the system and wanted to expand on my horizons too.

I moved to the other side of the country and spent several weeks volunteering full time with an amazing group of people who were all also going through a very transformative time in their lives.

I left a very secure job with amazing benefits and one of the best pensions on offer at the time for something more valuable than money,

To have greater impact and meet people soul to soul rather than role to role.

I tell you,

It's been a long,

Rocky road trying to pave the way for that.

However,

I have no regrets and continue on this road,

Gathering power in every pivot.

So here's one thing I really want you to know.

Don't get trapped.

Have you ever felt that you wanted to leave a situation but felt that there was something that kept hooking you back in?

One definite trap I see people fall into and that I myself have tackled with is wait and see.

This forces us to stay in situations way longer than we should and to the detriment of our health and well-being.

Often,

It's only once our health and well-being has deteriorated that we finally start making those necessary changes.

Consider this.

When we hold on too tight,

Things can't flow and we can't flow and get into that flow.

We and those things become stuck.

But you can choose to fulfill destiny consciously with intention,

Integrity and impeccability.

You can choose to honour your sacred path by living as soul intended.

When you choose this,

Your life will expand in ways you would never expect it.

It will open you up to more abundance,

Prosperity and joy than you have ever imagined.

There's power in the pivot.

Like I said,

It's been a long road of many choices and pivots.

After encountering hundreds of people who are stuck,

Lost or going through major life transitions,

It has become my mission to soothe the emotional upheaval and help them with a fresh start.

As I grew and evolved through a tremendous amount of deep inner work,

I found clarity and direction by asking myself,

Where would I have the greatest impact?

What would make life more satisfying?

Ask yourself that too.

Where would you have the greatest impact?

What would make your life more satisfying?

And know this,

Who you are makes a difference.

And now it's time to decide what kind of difference do you want to make?

Will you choose your destined path or leave it up to fate?

The soul-sapping struggles of my work that were due to constrictions inherent in working in the system really took a toll on my self-worth and physical health.

I had to look at what else was possible.

So I chose to find something that ignited my passion.

It has also been something that gave me purpose.

And looking back along your path,

What things do you notice?

You know,

During this kind of time off that we've had over the last couple of years,

It gave us a chance to call back the dreamer.

And I love this quote by Hafiz,

A poet.

He was actually Rumi's mentor.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage,

Freedom and light.

Do you too have a sense of calling?

What in you has yet to be born?

Where can you best serve and have a greater impact?

Would you be disappointed if you didn't answer this call?

It's hard to use logic because nothing really makes sense anymore.

Challenged by what you thought was true and right and then become disillusioned by it.

That's when you're at the crossroads of destiny.

You may no longer know what or who to trust or how to discern the best outcome.

Would you be willing to open to the possibility that we came into this life with a plan already established?

A blueprint imprinted in our spiritual DNA.

One that you can tap into by surrendering to divine will,

Higher forces or your intuitive guidance.

You know what?

This would mean that you don't have to figure it all out.

All you need to do is know the next step.

To be willing to move in the direction that you're meant to go.

To free your spirit to direct the life that you were meant to live.

And all you need to be willing to do is to take that next step.

As Rumi said,

When you start on the way,

The way appears.

So think about that for a moment.

Maybe you'd like to meditate on that for the next few minutes or journal about it.

What kind of pivots have you undertook in your life?

What were those defining moments?

Where would you have the greatest impact?

What in you has yet to be born?

What do you hear your soul calling to you?

Consider the difference that you want to make.

What path would you choose?

Thank you so much for listening to me and to your heart's calling.