Life lessons, or why am I here?

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Registered: 04-22-2003
Life lessons, or why am I here?
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Thu, 05-03-2007 - 9:28pm

Up until quite recently, I thought I had a basic understanding of the lessons I chose to learn in this lifetime.  I guess I had more than just a couple, as this latest one that has confronted me (again) is the one I seem to have refused to learn!


It's been suggested that I must learn how to receive.  I must learn what it is to be reliant on others and to have to ask for help.  Because I would truly rather not see this lesson played out as far as it could go, I am making an effort to learn the lesson with my upcoming surgery!  I figure if I can graciously accept and actually take people up on their offers to help, perhaps I will pass this exam and be spared future positions of helplessness...


I've managed to ask three people to do specific tasks for my surgery and aftercare, stopped strangers in stores and asked them to put bulky or heavy items in my shopping cart, accepted an outing with the mother of a friend (who I barely know, but I gave her four of my fish last weekend) and came to a realization that it is important to accept the gift others offer without feeling guilty or embarrassed to be in need.


And then I realized that it feels good to do this.  It brings smiles and gratitude on both sides when you allow someone to do something nice for you. 


Bink


 


Not really into Siggees...
 
Not all who wander are lost.
(J.R.R. Tolkien)


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 05-03-2007 - 10:37pm

That's one I have really difficulty with too.

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Registered: 06-18-2004
Sat, 05-12-2007 - 8:50am

Hi, just a lurker here but it seems like you are doing well with this lesson!

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Registered: 04-22-2003
Sun, 05-13-2007 - 9:48pm

Welcome capecod!


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Registered: 03-24-2004
Mon, 05-14-2007 - 10:30pm
So many of us are natural givers and along with that feel bad, guilty or embarrassed to receive from others. It is a lesson many of us must learn, including me. I will pray for your upcoming surgery and hope everything goes very well and that you will heal quickly and completely with minimal pain. Many blessings!

 

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Registered: 05-12-2003
Tue, 05-15-2007 - 7:00pm

Has anyone read Sonia Choquette's newest book "Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose: A Channeled Guide to Why You Are Here"? Looks very interesting.

Here's Amazon's description of it:

Soul Lessons and Soul Purpose is a book channeled by Sonia Choquette’s spirit teacher guides, The Three Bishops, as well as Joachim and the Emissaries of the Third Ray. These highly evolved and loving guides work specifically to bring about understanding, direction, and support to all souls so that we may learn to become the creative masters of the life that we’re intended to have on Earth. The guides state that Earth is “soul school,” and that we’re here to master 22 basic soul lessons in order to fulfill our purpose. Each lesson is laid out in such a way that anyone—on any level—will be ready to follow the instructions.

The guides make it very clear in this book that the timing to learn our soul lessons, open our hearts, and raise our vibration on the Earth plane is now. Negative occurrences will worsen if our energy doesn’t shift and elevate to a more loving plane. We have no time to waste!