Isn't it fascinating how many of our fellows throughout humankind tend to remand their own creativeness almost entirely to the matters of divine forces that in their minds guide them in blind fashions along the many paths of ones life?

A ponder that surely in some ways sits in the belly's of just about everyone at one time or another. Everyone has the innate desire for self-preservation, self-procreation and for a sure sense of self-determined destiny, agreed? Well, there are as many varying opinions on the designs to life and to the scheme of things as there are to the boundless ocean of the grand destinies of each of us all in humankind. Some views remain bright and indignantly positive while some others adamantly coexist with dark hallways of the mind, as sturdy as all the vastness of space and as firm as the seemingly dedicated aspects of the oceans of time itself. None of this however approaches the onward marching sense of a certain degree of personal obsolescence that takes its turn in thoughts and through actions day by day and through situation by situation. All of these factors make up the chemical mix of thoughts and beliefs that have dedicated the determined amount of enlightenment one chooses to engage as a means to their own eternity, as miniscule as many still seem to believe all of this to be in their lives. It surely is not, yet in the end, individual determined ways always do prevail to the one. Cultural and even societal religious trends define much of this theme not as much in spiritual ways, but in what is still viewed as grounded and firm reason to what is viewed as reviewed fact, instead of what is viewed at the core of the self as ones faith in whatever one chooses as a means to a continuing satisfying spiritual path in life.

My Holiday message this year is one of self-forgiveness, self-love and a true sense of renewal!

Sometimes the things that tend to stall us in our tracks along the path of life are the multitude of events and happenings in our past that constantly on some level parlay with our emotions and our reactions. Everyone mourns some part of their past! Some mourn an event or a bad relationship. Perhaps ill family relations, or bad jobs. Maybe even ill tempers and things that were done and said that we all wish we could tick-the-tock in an inverse fashion so that we might make it all right again. The trick is that the "tock" is mannered to look forward, not to move in reverse, and we might take a lesson from the universal architect that formed that paradigm of being. To seek to retain the lessons of the past in an attempt to better our path forward is a grand conception and one that exhibits a grounded living spirituality. To endlessly stare into the past however settles nothing and serves little purpose regarding the path forward now does it? At some point, we all have to let the past settle to its final foundations in the manners of existence and we all must learn to move along with life, with love, and with the experience of existence! Don't fear the past or its effects, don't fear the future for fear of the past repeating itself. Fear never again truly moving forward in your life for the fear of the past that has already been. "BE", don't live in the "has-been's". You are worth every "TO BE" in your life! In this Holiday Season, spend some time hugging yourself as much as you hug all of those you love. YOUR WORTH IT!

Happy Holidays and a wondrous Spiritual Season of Renewal To All!!!

WD Allan