How do I trust that the path before me is the path to be traveled? How do I trust that I will be alright whatever the future may hold? How do I let go of the things that I am attached to and just take what feels like a big risk? These were the questions on my mind this morning before I went about doing my daily virtues pick. There are no hard and fast answers that will bring me a modicum of certainty about right thing to do, only the attitude I choose to adopt while going through the process. This is the wisdom that the card of joyfulness imparts to me this morning. Being on the cusp of life altering decisions brings many questions. For it is fraught with indecision and I dither and dally, feeling as if I am spinning around and not sure in which direction to turn, unmoored and discombobulated. This, I realise is because the attitude I have adopted is not one of joy. When I focus and fondle the negative thoughts of the situation then that is the energy that fills me, I see only the impending doom. But moving through difficulties with a mindset of joy enables me to look at the difficulties through another lens. Challenges become lessons to learn, experiences impart wisdom and growth which is painful but necessary if I wish to develop spiritually. It is an exercise in detachment and there is pain involved. Perhaps that is what I fear! The practices of joyfulness reminds me that there is always a place of peace in and among any situation that I may be in the midst of and I only need take the time and effort to find it. I am surprised to I read on this virtue card that joy is the natural state of my soul. When I dwell on unpleasant things I am going against my own nature and nothing good ever comes from resisting nature, it wins every time, so why fight it? I can access optimism and hope that no matter what difficulties may prevail or may come in the future, they eventually pass on and in their wake brighter days will dawn.
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