As much as I fantasize about having a dream lifestyle where I travel around the world, exploring new places, meeting all different kinds of people, sample the variety of experiences the world has to offer, deep down I have always known that joy exists everywhere and that where I am is all I need. In fact, many spiritualists will say that where you are now is where you need to be. Certainly I can see beauty all around me when I take the time to look, and their are plenty of interesting people crossing my path on a daily basis. Why, then, do I feel going all these other places would be more glamorous, more exciting, somehow more fulfilling? Whose to say that where I am , the people I come into contact with regularly, aren’t the most amazing people anywhere?
I have been thinking lately about life purpose and spiritual calling. The other evening I had taken an unplanned and accidental nap, and when I woke up the room was mostly dark, and lying in bed in the fuzzy half awake state I asked myself, “What is my spiritual calling?”
Almost instantaneously, I got a surprising answer back from somewhere inside myself: ” My purpose is to be a conduit for joy.”
I have a feeling the process to embrace and understand what this really means will be long and maybe more uncomfortable than it should be. And yet, it feels right.