Stepping stones

I am sitting on a garden swing contemplating life.
Nothing complicated, I am not a deep philosophiser, just reflecting on recent conversations.

About a month ago I started a Mentoring Course and the session we had on Wednesday was really beautiful, simple and powerful. Today, something started bubbling up inside (no, not indigestion!).
It is a feeling I am familiar with – it usually means I am about to get my ‘blog’ on!!!

So, here I am sitting on the garden swing and these words are writing themselves.
During Mentoring we spoke a lot about who we are and how we are no less, or more, spiritual that any other person. Allow me to be specific. We probably all have someone in mind when we say a ‘spiritual person’.

But I can almost guarantee you aren’t thinking of someone at work, the homeless person you pass on the way to the bus stop or a drunken person you saw in the pub last week. And yet, those individuals are no less spiritual than you or me.

Perhaps you have thought of someone you have heard of who helps and guides people or someone whose wise words you have heard or read. And yet, those individuals are no more spiritual than you or me.

We are all the creative essence of the entire universe. We are not our limited thoughts. Whatever we are doing and whatever thoughts we are having, we are spiritual beings.

Another recent conversation was about stepping stones.....
Imagine trying to cross a river via stepping stones….. got it?
Now imagine each time you move on to a new stepping stone you pick up the old stone and carry it with you in case the stepping stones run out, or the next one isn’t big enough…. Feeling it?

How long before you get so weighed down with carrying all the stepping stones, just in case, that you collapse in a heap and get dragged downstream?

Those stepping stones are your thoughts, insights, wisdom and moments of pure genius (yes, I have those too!). They are of the moment, and do not need to be carried with you every step of your journey. If you need a stepping stone it will be there to take you forward.

We have wisdom (stepping stones) in and of the moment. And we can trust that the next ‘stepping stone’ is exactly where it is meant to be, in the exact moment we require it. We do not need to carry them with us, simply step forward in trust and enjoy the walk!

We are whole, complete, spiritual beings; whatever we are doing, whatever we have done, whatever we would like to be doing. Our wholeness doesn’t go anywhere. Even if we have never known or experienced feeling whole & complete, it still hasn’t gone anywhere! It is built in!
It is who we are.

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