Discontent is a powerful tool

I stumbled upon one of my favorite "creative exploration" book back in 1996, "The Artist's Way; A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity back in 1996 when I was dealing with severe writer's block and stagnating dreams. This is where I learned that there is only one journey; going inside ourselves. There is only one destination.. and each person has an individual one but surprisingly, it eventually leads us all to the same place; HOME.

In working with the guidelines in this book, I learned to switch on the spiritual electricity and through this I have discovered more energy and inspiration, amazing discoveries and delightful coincidences and the ability to not only to accomplish new goals but to lose and let go of old ones as well with grace.

"Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness....Sometimes, at that exact moment, a wave of light breaks into our darkness and it is as though a voice were saying ""you are accepted"". Isn't that what most of us are seeking? Acceptance of who we are both by other and by ourselves?

Sometimes, the switch to our spiritual electricity is turned off or a dimmer switch is attached. Suddenly dissatisfaction seeps through a crack in the door and we are left in the dark, left to our own devices... forgetting that ALL we need do is get up, walk over to the wall, and turn on that switch. As my readers have heard me say several times... you have to ASK. I have learned that asking is the only way to turn on that spiritual light. It is always there, I just have to ask.

The dissatisfaction I feel when the switch is turned off or dimmed manifests itself in a myriad of ways. Suddenly I do not like ANY room in my house as decorating mistakes from past lives haunt me. My clothes don't fit right anymore. I grow bored with the meals I am cooking. And even worse, looking at things with gratitude begins to irritate me and gives way to restless discontent. This is when I have to hold on with nails, teeth, and show true grit and remember the wise words of English Historian Cicely Wedgewood "Discontent and disorder are signs of hope, not despair"

What is occuring at times like these, both on a personal and interpersonal basis, is part of the process I call divine discontent. After all an oyster cannot make a pearl without that piece of grit that irritates it can it?

This year I have stepped into (been thrown into)my creative second chance; I am coming into my own. I have finally, after almost 55 years, come into my own life and am wrestling my future from fate. Perhaps, I am even learning to spin straw into gold... (smile)

I am accepting that God holds me.. the Universe beckons and through all, I am grateful that I can live by my own spiritual light.

So can you, dear reader... ASK for it.

Blessed be.