“Hard things.”

 

H,

We cannot tell how long the transformation of the soul will take. I am beginning to suspect it will take our whole lives. I think the lifelong trajectory is only meant to give us one thing: the solid foundation of our choices. We are not here to learn how to live in the light perfectly but how much we need the light to live at all. We are here for the hard things of being human as our lesson on becoming eternal.

It occurred to me, while talking about this to someone else, that we get caught up in things like “calling” and “purpose” and that we think the fruits and the gifts of the spirit are a support system for the former phrases, the road we walk on to do something great on earth. I believe we have this backwards.  The road we travel, the things we do are just the way we learn to rely on the higher things of the spirit to make meaning out of all life, not just our sojourn on earth. We are not here to do anything but to be who we are. The effect of that on earth is incidental and temporary. The impact of our renewed soul on everything that exists is eternal.