Flowing along your life path is a continual series of gliding from the Job Syndrome to a Great Life, in both grand and minuscule ways. Each cycle represents a higher level of conscious awareness allowing you, spirit, to ascend into your life of true purpose and love. No doubt you’ve heard the expression go with the flow but often flow is not what you do, particularly when flowing seems to be slamming into a wall of lack, loss, and uncertainty. Nevertheless, it is inconceivable to experience life without some levels of valley moments; for it’s the lows which allow for a greater understanding of the blessings during the high periods. But it’s how you handle each and every aspect of life that really determines how you flow along your path.
THE JOB SYNDROME
So you might be wondering; is this Job (pronounced Jobe) or job? Well, perhaps you aren’t familiar with Job, so let me explain. Job was a prominent figure who happened to make it in the Old Testament of the Bible. His story is one of faith, commitment, gratitude and Divine love. He was a very faithful and loving son of God who had it all…riches, a beautiful wife, property, livestock, wonderful children and several servants. One day Lucifer and God were talking. Lucifer implied there wasn’t one human on Earth who truly loved God. God’s response in essence was, yes there is one above all else! Job is a very loving and committed son. Then Lucifer pointed out that Job is a loving devoted son because he has everything a human being desires. But take it all away and let’s see if Job would continue to praise you. I’m sure if everything in his life was no longer there he would curse you forever.
That was the beginning of their little wager which was; if God took everything away from Job and he still loved and praised Him he would be blessed again with all of his desires. However, if Job for any reason cursed God and stopped believing in him the world would be doomed and Lucifer could have Job. So with all bets on, one-by-one Job lost his wife, his servants, his livestock, his property, his children, and ultimately his health. Nevertheless, through all of Job’s loss, he continued to praised and worship God. He never gave up faith on what God could and would do for him. Because of Job’s faithfulness (staying the course on his spiritual path) he received everything he had lost and more! His riches were multiplied beyond imagination! Although Job was left with absolutely nothing he still continued to be in the flow of love, gratitude, commitment and faith with God. He never wavered from his life’s path and he was blessed with even greater abundance.
A GREATER LIFE!
Everyone thinks about, envisions, dreams, prays and begs for a life filled with all the desires held close to the heart. As demonstrated in the story of Job, to move from some of the darkest situations experienced into pure joy of huge blessings, is a great life. And, after passing through such adversity, no longer experiencing the struggles and hardships from before, life is so fantastically wonderful! To move into a truly great life you must be willing, without resistance, to go through the struggles and hardships or valley periods of life. It’s during those times growth happens; wisdom is forged; lessons are learned and challenges overcome.
I often think about the butterfly. It is with great determination and compulsion a caterpillar eats and eats and eats and eats [a great life], until the time comes for it to create it’s own tomb. Imagine how stuffed it must be as it works toward a means to an end involving encapsulating itself. If that isn’t hardship, I don’t know what is. But the journey is not over… As soon as the caterpillar seals itself inside the cocoon it may rest; ending that leg of it’s arduous journey. The hardship is over and life is easy becoming great again! Then all of a sudden, BAM! The creature wakes up; finding it must push, bang, knock, pound until it punches through the harden case created before it slept. Ughhh…a real challenge with more struggle ahead. But, the small caterpillar discovers it not only grew considerably, it is more aware through the transformation of it’s life path, gaining freedom from the fight to the break through; which it does. And, once again a greater life; a life that took it from the lowest levels of the earth where it crawled, to the highest heights where it flies free above all other insects is realized.
BEING IN THE FLOW IS KEY
The stories of Job and the caterpillar becoming a butterfly provides outstanding examples of how a greater life is often gained when passing [and only passing] through to the other side, where the inevitable end of that cycle concludes. It is being in the flow of life with what comes next, as it is traversed, which is the key to be in the glory of your desires. What both of the stories have in common is that adversity was present along their purposeful life paths. However, the ability to move through challenging stages with ever pounding experiences is what brought about a greater life; as each story demonstrated.
Here’s a real life story of someone who went through the Job Syndrome only to find herself, even now, continuing to enjoy a greater life. Cindy (it’s not her real name) is a beautiful woman who decided she could no longer stay with her husband; so she asked for a divorce. It’s not unusual to do however he earned the income, she had never worked before; he paid the bills, she had never balanced a check book and didn’t know about finances; and he paid the mortgage, she managed to pay half of the down payment on the house.
Cindy loved her house, it was what she had picked out for them to live in. She was not prepared to sell it, nor did she want him to buy her out because he really didn’t want the house. He just didn’t want her to have it. He told her however, she could keep the house if she dropped divorce proceedings allowing them to stay married and live in the house together. Cindy couldn’t agree to that. Based on some personality and character traits he started to exhibit, she felt extremely uncomfortable with him. And so, off to divorce court they went. It was a bitter battle over assets and their baby son. After almost two years Cindy gained the house and primary custody of their child. But while she was in battle to keep what she desired she began working for a relative who had a mortgage company. She learned about mortgages, she learned about finance, she learned about many things becoming a strong and wise business woman.
Directly after the divorce she was able to refinance the house and buy her ex-husband out. She paid off all of the credit cards by transferring balances on existing cards to new 0% interest rate cards for the first six to twelve months. Everything she earned went to paying off the cards.
She paid her house note with the settlement from her divorce. But once the credit cards were paid off she decided she never wanted to work again, so she quit. As alarming as it may seem, she decided to turn her house into a money making opportunity. She refinanced the house again at a much lower rate. Cindy took out some of the equity to transform two of the four bedrooms in her home and she built a loft in the back of her house, transformed the garages and created a beautiful tree house. With the rooms and luxurious spaces rented out, each with their own separate entrances she runs a bed and breakfast. Her home is right along the beautiful coast where access to the beach is less than half a mile away. She also has a selection of bicycles for people to ride to the beach with picnic baskets that are made up as part of the enjoyable experience. Cindy’s little business endeavor is earning her a five figure a month income. She has two housekeepers, a personal assistant, a business team and a cook that prepares meals some time. Cindy is able to travel the world and be gone for one, two or three months at a time; something she’s always wanted to do. And, her son, well he is off to college soon beginning his own new life adventures. Oh, and she’s still a single woman who prefers it that way.
The challenges Cindy went through with her ex-husband and for a while feeling very inept as to how she would keep her house, take care of herself and child proved to be blessings that carried her into a greater life. She did not resist what she had to do. She moved forward bravely, anyway, with transforming her lifestyle, even though it was scary. Cindy knew, as a painting expressive artist, at heart, that her purpose was to raise her son and express the love and beauty she carries within her to the world. Nothing would stop her from that goal, even though she didn’t know at first how things were going to work out. But, what she did know is that by investing in her self-development and going for what she desired, no matter what, she was able to find her true self and her true purpose, allowing her to live a fantastic life filled with her dreams. She’s lived this way for many years now and for what appears to be many more to come.
TIPS TO FLOW ALONG YOUR PATH
The reason for sharing these stories is to paint a picture of the fact that, no matter how life becomes a struggle or challenging they seem these hardships are part of the flow leading to a much greater life. You can assist in your own process by moving out of resistance. The thoughts of “It’s too hard or would hurt too much” which lead to feelings of “I don’t want to” leading to actions of “I’m not going to” makes the struggle that much harder. Relax and let go. Let the path take you where it will because you may not always be able to see clearly what’s around the bend. You may not know what the emotional or psychological blocks are which, in actuality, prevent you from your greater life.
Also, do all that you can to become consciously aware. When you are consciously aware you may not know everything that will take place in your life. What you will know, is that sometimes life isn’t a cake walk yet you’re ready to handle it. The way you take care of difficulties is by staying neutral, not resisting, admitting when you’re wrong, and deciding you don’t have to be right; especially when defending something to the death of your highest good. Be consciously aware of who you are. Seek how you can better yourself in handling life’s challenges with more ease, peace and grace. Learn to be so comfortable with yourself anything life brings can be met with certain resolve, knowing a greater life is eventual.
And, stay secure in your certainty about your specific life’s path. Your journey is different from anyone else’s journey. All another can do is show or suggest how they have traveled along their path. Ultimately, it’s up to you how you chose to flow. The main thing is that you keep flowing in the present moment-by-moment-by-moment-by…until what’s left is you, floating along the freedom cloud of what is a glorious life!
Lynne Herod-DeVerges, founder Center of Light Miracles
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