Paula got me thinking
In reference to the blog entry about Doreen Spence, a wise Cree elder, and Heavenletter #3088 Create Yourself, I want to respond further to Paula's intriguing post.
Paula found herself wanting to be like Doreen. I can relate to how Paula feels. Doreen gives us something to live up to. Doreen is so true to herself. In being true to herself, she serves humanity in so many ways.
And then Paula had the insight that she is meant to be Paula!
In my response to Paula, I commented on the unexpectedness of Paula's being Heaven's first translator. For six or seven years, Paula has translated Heavenletters into Italian. What might surprise you is that Paula was born and grew up in Finland -- who could have predicted that one day she would be translating Heavenletters into Italian! Who would have had a clue!
By the same token, who could have predicted that the child I was would ever become a Godwriter! No one. No one but God.
It makes me wonder how much is destiny.
I would like to ask Doreen if there had been any foreshadowing that she would one day travel the world in service to indigenous and non-indigenous people alike. Of course, through her service to the world, Doreen is serving God.
I wonder if any of us had an inkling as to where life would take us. What is your story? I sure would love to know. What came to pass in your life that you had never even dreamed of?
Of course, our lives are ongoing. We do not yet know what surprises wait for us even tomorrow.
Comments
Yes, now I think that I am exactly where God wants me to be, but it took me a long time to accept it. I always felt I wanted to be something more, do something more, serve God in a higher capacity. I was sorry I didn't have the courage to go out and do big things. I wanted to serve according to my own will, but that was ego. God has guided me to serve following His will, and this meant I needed to surrender what I thought was my service.
I remember God's answer to a private question of mine, where I complained about not being able to be with people. God said: You would be rubbing elbows if you were meant to rub elbows (or something like that). I didn't understand it's profound meaning then, but now I understand that everything is (I am) as it's meant to be.
And today's Heavenletter #3796 Who You Really Are surely gives another picture about my/our service. What a great responsibility! Impossible to fathom with my little mind here on Earth.
Ok I have come full circle in this life. I was a foster child, powerless and abused, married a man whose last name was Foster, and now I work with foster kids and parents every day in the same system. I never liked or wanted kids yet had two of my own and raised more than a dozen in my daycare for 11 years (and was very good at it too). I am now an informal teacher, teaching what I have learned over this difficult lifetime, come to it yet again in denial, kicking and arguing the whole way. But it fits and feels right and I am finally accepting and thrilled to be walking the path I am walking.
We are where we are due to where we have been and how we choose to live our lives. Mine was definitely a plan meant for me to understand, develop compassion, and help others from my experiences. However it sure wasn't a conscious plan! I never would have guessed way back when I was kid that I would be here and now doing what I am doing.
Blessings All
What a magnificent story, Dorothy. You have really taken responsibility, haven't you? You sure aren't a victim.
God bless you.
Beautiful Dorothy. It is really God into action through you. What a wonderful lesson from life.
Thanks
Dear Dorothy, God would say that somewhere along the line you chose to walk this path. Isn't it wonderful when we can finally accept it!I love you.
The refrain would be: Happy to be me.
Absolutely Paula, I did choose this life, this path, it just took me nearly 50 years to understand and accept that. I surely hope it doesn't take my children and children as long as it took me...however the lessons were what I needed to get here.
No no victim here, Gloria, not even a survivor, I just AM, as we all are. Here having experiences and living and learning all the time. We all have stories to tell...and God is interested in every one of them.
Thanks everyone for the sweet comments.