Being In The Earth School of Spiritual Enlightenment

Psalm 118: 24  This is the day the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.

I love this psalm.  I often think of it when I awake in the mornings.  It sets my soul right.  Although I define myself as being eclectic in my religious beliefs, a little of this and a little of that, this psalm seems to right size me as I begin my day.

I try to live from a place of love.  Love of life and of all that IS.  This seems to work for me.  I receive much consoling from Christianity, Buddhism, and many other religions, as well.  As long as I live in the light of all that IS, I know I am doing the right thing as I continue to grow spiritually. 

Growing spiritually is what life is all about for me.  I examine my motives, my desires, my ways of being.  Always wanting to do the right thing.  I believe that the lessons I fail to learn in this life time are sure to be repeated in the next until I incorporate the spiritual lesson in all of my being.  I do believe in reincarnation.  I believe we live our life times in order to continue to grow spiritually until we no longer need to reincarnate.  We will then be ONE with the light of all that is, no longer needing the physical body, what Gary Zukov refers to as the 'earth school'.  This works for me.  I believe it with every fiber of my being.  It is a place of all knowing that resonates within me.  When I came to this awareness in my twenties, it was like, "AHA!  This makes perfect sense to me."  I then went on to study the many translations of the Bible and discovered that reincarnation used to be a part of it.  It was during it's many translations that it was left out, for fear that people would not follow the precepts of the commandments if they felt they could just 'come back' and do it all over again.

I have had many times in my life when I feel so connected to someone.  Often times, someone whom I hardly know.  It's as if all of the deja vu moments flood in at once.  These are moments, for me, of being in the presence of someone I knew in a previous life time.  I have also had moments of memories of past lives.  One, being in Greece, dancing in a family circle, a celebration of sorts, I am in my thirties, I have olive skin, black hair, and I am full of love.  A beautiful memory, indeed.  Another time, I was receiving body work from an energy worker and I had a flashback of living in the plains in the 1800's.  I was tanned, with dusty blond hair, I had three children, one girl and two boys, and my husband was missing.  We waited collectively in the field when we saw him approaching.  It was a beautiful memory.  We loved and celebrated one another.  It was so real, I was so connected to it, and I broke out in tears of gratitude during the body work.  I was told that certain emotions may come up for me when working with an energy healer.  But, I was not expecting this at all.  I will never forget this memory.  And, for me, I know it was real, ever true.  A definite experience of my past life.

Whether you believe in past lives or not, it is still our responsibility to live with spiritual integrity every day of our lives.  To keep a clean slate, so to speak.  To do not harm, to treat others with love, dignity, respect.  This of course holds true not just in those we know and love, but also those who we don't.  The strangers we meet everyday.  Meet them with love.  With honor.  Be grateful for the brief soul connection that you have with another.  It's all part of the bigger picture, the spiritual road map we have for ourselves.  To grow and develop more spiritually.  To go deeper.  To honor the contract that we came into this life with.  By this I mean, again, this is my belief, we all come into each lifetime with lessons to be learned.  It is all planned before we even take our first breath.  All of our interactions with others, all of our experiences, they are all planned.  It is up to us to be spiritually in tuned enough to take 'the high road', to again, do the next right thing.  This brings us closer to spiritual enlightenment.  And, this, my friends, is what life is all about.  Living in such a way that spiritual enlightenment is more and more closely attained so again, we will no longer need to reincarnate into a physical body.  We will instead, be one with the LIGHT, the light we are from that connects us all.  For me, this makes perfect and complete sense.  It doesn't however, give me an 'out' on learning and then repeating the wrong way of being, it means instead that I take great heed to what needs to be done in front of me on a day to day basic.  Making all decisions based on love, light, and of causing no harm.  I have to be accountable for all my thoughts, my actions, and my soul response to any given situation, and when I make a mistake, I learn, and apply the next right action the next time the situation arises.  So far I am learning and growing spiritually.  I know this to be true by comparing how I used to live my life to how I live my life now.

In the past it was all about me.  Acting and reacting, without any forethought to anything.  Consequences of my actions were of no importance to me.  I was so caught up in being human.  What I could get, have, what would satisfy my in the very moment.  That was my raison d'etre.  And, I was very unfulfilled.  Very unhappy and dis-satisfied with life.  I lived in the role of the victim, yet it was all ME, ME, ME.  A shift occurred.  Spiritual people began to emerge into my life.  I became open to receive goodness, selflessness, and wanted to help as many people as I could.  Changes occurred sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly, but I knew on a soul level that I was changing.  I was like a sponge.  Wanting to expand as much as I possibility could.  I knew there was more to life, and I wasn't it.  It was a slow and deliberate process, but it did happen.  This brings me full circle to who I am today.  I am more soul connected than human connected.  I embrace being part of this earth school.  I embrace the opportunities for spiritual growth on a daily basis.  It's all about growing for me.  Even the day to day occurrences which arise in my life, I know there is a spiritual lesson in it for me somewhere, as long as I keep my ego out of it and allow God to work in my life.  I know truly, that all will be revealed.  In God's time and not mine.

So for today, this is the day the Lord hath made.  And I shall rejoice and be glad in it.  Seeking and being in a place of acceptance of whatever comes to me.  I shall look for the spiritual lesson in everything, for I firmly believe there always is one, if not many.

May you find, seek, feel, experience spiritual lessons in your day today.  It's all about growing and maturing spiritually and this is my greatest prayer for you!  Let us all do the next right thing.  Just listen to your soul, for it knows the answer to any question.  Respond to it in love, light, and belief.  All is as it should be.  Embrace it.

All my love, Sharon Asheton