Our Path

When we look at a field full of newly fallen snow we see a carpet of whiteness that sparkles in the sun. Then the children start running in that snow. What happened? The children leave foot prints that had a start and moved throughout the field of snow; leaving a path that could be followed from start to finish and unique to one child's path through the snow. Even if another child ran on the same foot prints of another child, the observer can see that the children foot prints are not the same.

What kind of path are you walking on? Is it made of dirt or stones or perhaps concrete? Did you leave any foot prints behind? I think I know what kind of a path your on. I think it's a spiritual path. Or is it some other kind of path?

Each one of us are walking on a path that no other person has walked on crisscrossing the paths of other people. Our life is filled with experiences. We think that many have walked the same path before us and have had the same experiences, could this be true, but we are walking a path that is unique to us. No two people can walk in the same path because we are all different individuals even though we have the same physical make up.

You and me are individuals who experience life differently. I cannot be you and you cannot be me. My likes and dislikes are unique to me. Even my education and training from birth are different from yours. Even my brothers and sister are greatly different than mine even though we were raised in the same household with the same parents.

Should we be striving to be just like another person? No, because we don't live in their body..

We go through life learning and experiencing a multitude of information that is stored away for a time when it's needed, it's available. Each person experiences are unique to them. No other person on earth experiences exactly the same experience even though they witnessed the same incident. When a dozen people are asked to describe what they saw or experienced, they all have similar stories to tell, but not exactly as the others.

We call our life experiences parts of our path that we are on that makes us who we are. A unique individual whose experiences are totally our own. 

Life would be dull if we all experienced exactly the same thing in exactly the same way.

Our physical life path ends with us taking up residence in the Spirit World, but we remain the same person there as here on earth. In the Spirit World we will continue to experience and prosper that which is unique to us. There is no other person just like you, me.

A Lesson from Children

Children are not only our future but are now. So innocence so full of joy and hope. In the book Walking for Pease, Mony wrote about some young children  that she and her walking partner met in Italy. One of the children, a girl, handed Mony a book. On the cover was drawn three cartoon fish in a row holding paint-brushes while walking across a rainbow bridge that extended to infinity. The fish in front wore a kaffiyeh (Palestinian black and white scarf), the fish at the end wore a yarmulke (the Jewish cap), and the fish in the middle wore a baseball cap. Above all their heads was the title "We Give a Boost to Peace with Six Hands" in four languages: Hebrew, Arabic, Italian and English.

The idea originated in Italy. The Italian children started a drawing which was delivered to a Palestinian school where those children added to it, and finally to Israeli children who completed it. The children's drawings showed togetherness where the children wore each other's religious scarfs, and caps. Some of the children's parents even added drawings to the books. When the books were finished many months later, they were displayed at a cultural center in Jerusalem, and the children were invited to see their handiwork. 

In Jerusalem there would be as many as five hundred excited children squealing with joy and delight at finding their book that they and their partners created.

Italian, Jewish and Palestinian children in their innocence without fear and hatred for each other united in peace, hope and the joy of just being children.  

Children have a great deal to teach us adults. We should listen to them and do as they do. 

In Canada, red, yellow, black and white children and some times speaking different languages all play together on school grounds, in parks and where ever they can gather to have some fun. Children don't see the color or bother about another kids language, they are able to communicate with each other just fine and have fun doing it.

The world would be a better place to live in if adults could set aside their differences for a time as children and find peace.

As Spiritualist, we strive to live together with other people no matter what the color of there skin may be or language they speak. We truly believe in our second principle "We believe in the brotherhood of man".