Serve, Love, Meditate, Realize

"Serve, love, meditate, realize."  This phrase came to me after my meditation.  One thing I realized this morning was that I haven't meditated in 4 days, which is very unusual for me.  I love to meditate.   I have since I started the practice 25 years ago.  I like having that time to just sit and watch my thoughts without acting on any of them.  I like to watch them float by and disappear.  I like that I don't have to speak, or move or do anything.  I just get to sit and be, truly be with myself.  I feel as if this is my time to connect, to unplug from the world and plug into spirit.  It is like taking time to recharge from that never ending source of of universal energy, like the way we charge up our cell phones.

I haven't mediated in 4 days because I have been too preoccupied with too many details and too many tasks at hand.  I hate moving, but I sit here this morning in my friend's lovely home in a beach-side community in Jacksonville, Florida on a warm, balmy November day with that all that moving behind me now.  I am happily homeless with everything I own now stuffed in the corner of a friend's garage.  I don't think the totality of my freedom has sunk in yet.  After all the planning, selling, packing, moving and storing over the last month, yesterday with no obligations, no to-do list, I didn't really know what to do with myself.  Today, I am drinking in the beginnings of a new life.  

Like a cat, I feel in that within this particular physical incarnation, I have had more than one life... Perhaps, I am on about number 6 by now.  I've never been the one to count on to stay in the same place, doing the same thing with the same people.  I am fully involved, fully devoted and fully present to whatever life I am in, but when the winds change, I may fly with them.  I have had the honor and am most grateful though, that I have made life long, loving, compassionate, supportive friends regardless of my gypsy nature.  

I am truly blessed with these amazing souls in my life.  Everywhere I go, they are there mirroring back to me the essence of who we all are, Spirit.  This morning these questions came to me, "What's it all about? Why do we do what we do?   Why are we here?"  The answer came, "Serve, love, meditate, realize."  That's it.  That's is what it's all about.  It doesn't matter where we go, where we live or what we do for a living.  Life is simply a mirror showing us our own reflection.  We are not our obligations, our tasks, our details, our jobs or our things, we are Spirit.  And our only purpose is to serve, love, meditate and realize.  Too bad we can't write that on the inside of our eyelids so we won't forget it.