Feeling all the highs, feeling all the pain...

Not only is there often a right and wrong, but what goes around does come around, Karma exists, chickens do come home to roost, and as my grandmother liked to say: there is always a day of reckoning. The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits, or to use an old fashioned word for the same idea, our souls. That is every human’s life work: to construct an identity bit by bit, to walk a path step by step, to live a life that is worthy of something higher, lighter, more fulfilling, and maybe even everlasting.

The universe unfolds to itself, bringing to bear any cause that needs to be included. Don't take this process personally. The working out of cause and effect is eternal. We are part of this rising and falling that never ends, and only by riding the wave can you ensure that the waves don’t drown you. For once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.