There are no coincidences!

I have always believed that there are no coincidences - that everything, good or bad, happens for a reason. I've also always believed that everyone you meet has something to teach you. Whether it's something about yourself, something about others, doesn't matter what it is. And lately, I've been more perceptive to everything: whether it's someone I make eye contact with, something that happens that teaches me something; whatever it is I'm more aware, more conscious.

Lately I've been having things just happen. I'll have questions and not too long after asking the question (most of the time asking myself the question) I'll get the answer somehow. If you recall, not too long ago I had a horrible nightmare. That same exact day I came upon a Dream Revealer website without doing a search for one. Coincidence? I think not.

Today, I blogged about feeling like I was stuck. This afternoon I came online and checked my Google Reader to see who of my bloggy friends had been busy and found this from the Peaceful Warrior Blog. And it made me feel so much better!!!! And then just an hour or so ago I came upon something on TV that was talking about places to stay that are literally out in the wilderness, far away from civilization! Just what I've been craving for lately.

This afternoon I also noticed my horoscope (which is odd because it's actually for Tuesday and not Monday - Monday being the day I found it on my homepage!):
Horoscope for July 29, 2008
Today's Libra Horoscope
(September 23 - October 22)

Relationships are more important to you now than ever, for you are working through very deep-rooted issues. Your current expectations may be based on lessons you learned in your childhood or even from early family dynamics. Understanding where you come from can clear your current perspective of unrealistic dreams that only set you up for disappointment. Engage in social activities without trying to turn them into anything but the simple pleasures that they are.

Trying to figure out my early childhood dynamics is something I've been doing now since I finished reading The Celestine Prophecy! More of which I'll blog about later on.

If I could just fall asleep right about now it would make my day! But my mind won't stop racing.

Feeling stuck!

I'm feeling stuck, almost at a standstill. The past month I've been heavily reading some great spiritual books which have helped me to grow spiritually. One was Way of the The Peaceful Warrior and the other was The Celestine Prophecy. Both are AWESOME, AWESOME books. Sean and I have also watched both movies and he actually liked both. The movie for Way of the Peaceful Warrior was horrible in my opinion - for those that have already read the book that is. It just didn't do the book justice. The movie for The Celestine Prophecy was better. Not as good as the book of course, but still okay. (If anyone is interested in either of these stories, read the book 1st!!!!!!) After reading these books I felt awesome. The Celestine Prophecy reminded me alot of Ishmael and My Ishmael- only giving you the answer to the question "how". And The Celestine Prophecy reminded me alot of A New Earth - only CP is in story form. And I felt great for a while. The past few days though I've almost felt stuck. Like I'm not sure how to proceed in a way. I keep having this urge to go away into nature for a few days and just sit. And I feel as if I can't move on until I do just that. That may sound crazy but it's how I feel.

-Kim

July 13th

I finally made it back to Church and I am starting to feel whole again. I had a few things I needed to make up my mind about and time is running short, so I decided now was the time to get back into the sort of "guided Spirituality" I so obviously needed.

I actually laughed out loud when Alan said, "This will be a discussion on Making Decisions"; I couldn't believe how obvious the Universe was being!

Alan started off by discussing how when you identify yourself with outer things such as your job, your political affiliation, etc., you are showing the 'small' part of yourself, the limited part of your being. In cases such as this we need to expand our ego (which, if you look the word up, truly means the identity you've created for yourself), to include our inner selves.

He also spoke about limits and how we are all guilty of arguing our limitations. "If only X hadn't happened to me, I could..." or, "I can't do X because of Y, Z..." We need to affirm the Greatest Good for ourselves every day! We need to believe and live the greatest good we can achieve for ourselves because, by allowing limits, we are denying the law of the Universe to work for us.

We also do this by allowing others to judge us, commended us... in essence limit us and who we are. We are connected at the core to everything and everyone, so we should never allow people's opinions of us to dictate our line of thinking. We know our goodness, know that there is a common good that we are all striving for, and we believe that everyone's heart and soul is attached to this goodness. People's negative thoughts and negative energies aren't the Truth!

So, all that being said, I have come to the conclusions that I'm happy with. I will not let the "I can't because..." and the "What if I'm wrong?" thoughts intrude upon my Truth!