Fulfilling your Souls Purpose; A Work In Progress

Il Duomo renovation 2005

On our soul’s evolutionary path we have incarnated many lifetimes. There is a reason and purpose for why we chose this particular time to live in a physical body. We are always evolving and expanding and every lifetime is a “work in progress”.

Our divine spirits chose a physical body, specific gender and made “agreements” with our families. There are things that we wanted to experience in the physical or we would not have chosen to be born.

Choosing to take a body also includes choosing a path to fulfilling your soul’s purpose. There are many paths and the original one you chose may have changed over time. No matter which path you take you can embrace it, change direction or resist it; But regardless of changing, embracing or resisting you will complete the work you came here to do.

Your life is a work in progress and as such, you are learning, expanding and bringing energies from past lifetimes into the present. It is said that all roads lead to Rome; Well, all roads also lead you to fulfilling your soul’s purpose which includes integrating the knowledge and experience from other lifetimes into this one. In other words, we are the sum total of all those lifetimes and we are now in a time to consciously begin to integrate all that we are and all that we know from those lives and this current one.

The day-to-day challenges you face are learning experiences all of which are a part of your “work in progress“. Not because they are challenging but because they are constant reminders of what you are working on. With awareness you can choose to meet these challenges by deciding if you want your energy and attention in them (leaving no room for you to create something new), resisting them (resistance causes challenges to grow until you clear the resistance) or transcend them by reminding yourself of your inner strength of spirit and who you are.

A lot of what is experienced in the physical is about clearing energies that are not you! You are love, pure love, and you are returning to the oneness of love. The challenges you face are outside of you and each time you remember who you are, you become the creator and facilitator of your journey. Fulfilling your soul’s purpose does not just encompass only this lifetime. It may take many lifetimes both in and out of the body but each lifetime has a purpose in and of its own.

A real life example of how a work in progress grows and expands is the Il Duomo cathedral in Milan, Italy. The first stone was laid in 1386 and was completed in 1965! Even now there are uncarved stones which have yet to be completed into statues. There was a major facade renovation from February 2003 – 2009 to restore Il Duomo to its grandeur by removing centuries of grime and restoring what the elements damaged so we could once again see the colours of the Candoglia marble. Talk about a work in progress!

As a work in progress there are times you need to clear a facade to show yourself, remove the grime (energies you pick up along the way) and restore yourself to show the splendor of your being. Whether you are updating by bringing back energies “stuck” in other lifetimes or clearing concepts, untruths or programming from this lifetime it all comes down to YOU. One of the wonderful things about working with energy is that you may be able to complete some of the “hard” work sooner. Why take an entire physical lifetime when you can take charge consciously and use your time here on earth to create and ease your journey of expansion?!

There is always a process and always progress. The more you bring your energy and attention back to you, the more you move toward fulfilling your soul’s purpose. Many don’t even know what their purpose is and that’s ok, it will be revealed in its own time. Just know you have strength and fortitude to move forward on your journey. There is a purpose and you can live a life of joyful work knowing your divine spirit is progressing and expanding….or not. It’s your choice.~Shine Your Light Debbie
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Hope Springs Eternal! Don’t EVER Give Up!

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest:The soul, uneasy and confin’d from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”~ Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

Recently I was asked “how does one find hope?”. This is a really great question because for me hope is one of those things that comes and goes. There are days I’m hopeful and days I feel like giving up. Not everyone is hopeful all the time. In reflecting and meditating on the question to offer an intelligent answer I realized that hope is born from  joy and present time. Hope is  thinking positive and knowing you have options!

Hope is about Having Options!

Certainly there is no hope if you fear you have no options.  There are always options! With your energy in the present you open doors and allow spirit to show you those options. If you have no hope or feel like you’ve lost all hope, what happened is at some point you gave up or gave in to your situation. Your attention and energy was on the challenge not the solution! If you choose to believe there is nothing more and you can’t move forward you have certainly prophesied your future. The energy of hope gives you the strength to open your mind, think outside of the box and try different things. If you have exhausted all options due to disease or chronic pain you still have the option to live your life to its fullest by finding things that bring joy to your heart and give you hope. The reason I mentioned there are always options is because in the world today new solutions to health issues are discovered and uncovered every day. Don’t ever give up hope that a new option might very well come your way!

Abandon Hope?

One of my spiritual teachers always used to say “abandon hope”. He always laughed when he said it. I always understood that to mean “give it up”. Not GIVE UP but give IT up. In other  words let it go. Focusing solely on hope and not letting it go keeps you stuck in the hope and not open to receiving the answer by allowing it to come to you. What if hope is the means to actualize the answer? Hope can shift your energy from deep despair to hopeful optimism. Find just one little shred hope, shift your energy then open yourself up to receiving. You never know when the thing that’s right for you will find its way to you. It might be just around the corner so don’t ever give up!

Hope Springs Eternal in the Present

Hope flows within you like a clear, crisp mountain stream and all you need do is drink from its waters to revitalize yourself. Hope gives you the strength to move forward and do what you need to do. Without hope you lie stagnant, in despair and isolated in pain. When there is lack of hope you will notice your energy is caught up in past events or worrying about a future which may never come to pass. How many times have you been so caught up in past or future events that when you finally come to the present you have to ask “where did the time go?”.  It’s interesting to note that when you wake up you notice how much energy you expended and where it felt like there was NO solution you find MANY solutions and options!

Allow hope to act like a free-flowing mountain stream. Giving up is building a dam to stop the waters. As in the picture on this post mountain waters flow around the rocks and those same rocks will eventually be smoothed out and worn down by the strong flow of water. Hope gives you strength in the present. Finding hope is not always easy but if your energy is in the present and you find just ONE thing that brings you joy, hope is ignited and the flame will burning brightly to light up many options which in turn bring you more hope! Here’s to a new day full of HOPE!~Shine Your Light Debbie

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