Opportunity

By Joan McCall

You've spent several years studying and praying for a new life. Old negative friends have been replaced by supportive ones who think as you do. Affirmations and spiritual treatments have enabled you to create the kind of life you always wanted. You don't live in "Scare City" anymore; you are earning real money for the first time. Work is interesting and becoming more so every day. Life is good. Now what?

The spiritual work you have done has caused such radical changes in your life that you feel you are no longer the same person. Could that really be true? Ram Dass said, "If you think you've arrived spiritually, go visit your parents for a week." Once there, you will find out if they can still press your buttons or rattle your chains? Don't be disappointed if they can. The people closest to us in life offer us the greatest opportunities for spiritual growth. Maybe you left home because you felt you couldn't grow in that atmosphere. Maybe you used to think it was a mistake that you got dropped into that family. It was no mistake. You ended up right where you meant to be.

We don't often look at our challenges in this light, but our most intimate relationships are the yardstick by which we can measure how far we have come and how far we have yet to go. I believe that the family we grew up in was the right one. Perhaps we chose to join that particular set of people to work out certain lessons we framed for ourselves before we came here. We can't know for certain, but if we are able to resolve the issues we've had with our closest and dearest, once and for all, we can surely say that we have grown spiritually. However, that won't be the end of the challenges. We will always create lessons for ourselves. Why? We are perpetually in the process of "arriving" because we are infinite beings, living in eternity. We are already perfect and complete at our essence, but our spiritual purpose is to continue to grow in awareness of that truth and to know ourselves in ever-greater ways.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rev. Joan McCall is a Science of Mind minister, teacher and practitioner. She is also a prolific sreenwriter and has starred as an actress on Broadway and in motion pictures. For more information about her Center in Los Angeles, go to www.cacsl.org or visit her IMDB page by clicking here.

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