finding50

Today as I walked into the gym at Ferrymead, a first thought I noticed was of Julie's husband Richard, that maybe I'd see him here (having only done so one other time) and my second thought was, Oh he's a single parent now, I wonder how he'd find the time. You see he'd recently lost his wife, my friend Julie, with whom they share a lovely daughter. After only one set on a weight machine, who should walk by but Richard, WOW, so I got to tell him he had been on my mind only minutes ago.

As we started to chat I noticed he looked remarkably like a friend/client and gym member Chris, so I got to telling him that, and how most remarkably Chris had become a client not long after the death of his own wife. I had Chris in for a session recently and I had shared with him the recent loss of my friend and it made me think of the early days of his loss. Now Chris is happily remarried, such is the passage of time. Both men's stories have touched me deeply, for where there is a beginning there is a middle and an end, and with each end affords opportunity for a new beginning.

I left our conversation to go to my yoga class and in my first 5 quiet minutes tears streamed down my face. Such were my moments of awe and connection, to my self, to others and to Source. No mistake that much of my morning's connection to spirit thru readings were from Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. A sentence stuck with me...

"Opportunities for liberation are occurring continuously and uninterruptedly throughout life......the key...to discover and recognise them, and make the fullest possible use of them."

He also wrote "Pain Grief, loss....are there for a dramatic purpose: to wake us up....and...release our imprisoned splendor".

My Finding 50 adventure is to live to inspire and impress on people to not wait for death, disease, or disaster ...in order to start fully living, living fully. Such are my morning connections to people, wisdoms and spirit. And having weathered a storm overnight the day shines bright, filled with opportunities to spend my afternoon. And if I may offer another Pearl of wisdom and inspiration, I quote Lindsey Dawson from her latest marvel of a book "The Answer" - "When a bad patch seems to go on and on...WAIT, note how, without fail, storms always pass. See how gloom goes and light returns. Observing that, how can you doubt that better times are on the way?"

Gayel