November 2010- Suffering and Change

Many times change occurs within ourselves because we have come face to face with our suffering. It is through the challenging and releasing of our attachment to the suffering that clarity, hope, joy and new life exist. Maybe life brings about the challenge because we have strayed to far from our purpose or our destiny’s path. For example, a friend’s husband asked her for a divorce. She is devastated. After much soul searching and finding herself through her pain of her loss, she begins to see this difficult challenge differently. She finds joy in her gardening. She finds passion in her reading. She changes her career from a receptionist to healing others through her natural gift of being an intuitive and having a wise voice. She takes risks that she would not have done before due to her extreme need to control. She observes her ex-husband over these last few years begin to drink and spiral downward in depression and lose his job. She understands now that maybe her marriage was not meant to be as she is now on a different path. She did not see this at the time of the divorce.

The recent movie, Robin Hood has a similar theme. Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe reportedly research the character, Robin Longstreet to ensure as much as possible the creditability of the story. King John who ruled England decided to tax his people to fill the coffers of his kingdom. Robin Hood, a son of a