Keeping it Simple

These last few weeks have been difficult and I've been using the time to reflect and seeking spiritual peace and how I got away from it. It's easy when you stop doing the things that work in your life. For the last 6.5 years I've searched out what it is to be happy and it all starts with a decision to be happy which includes love, peace, kindness, patience & honesty. We learn lessons from our experiences and if we don't learn from them then we will repeat them until we do, it's really our choice. The problem is that most people seem to like staying in the past and others like the future, both of which aren't NOW and that is really all we have because we can't change the things from the past and the future hasn't arrived, what we can do is make our today the very best we can.
I believe that everyday I learn is another day of life, when I stop learning then that will be the end of this experience. I was raised in church and had many questions even as a kid that were never answered in a satisfactory manner, usually only causing more confusion, as things just didn't add up. For the last few years I started reading and for the first time hearing answers and explanations that made sense for the first time, things that witnessed to my spirit. When I moved to Trinity and being surrounded by majestic mountains, the rivers and creeks, the wildlife, I found Paradise and realized the beauty that is the Universal Spirit.
For the last 3+ years I've changed the way I look at life and realized that living in the past was not where I wanted to be. I've taken the lessons I've learned from it but to continue to talk about of live out the past brings spiritual death to each of us, we have today and making the best out of it is all we can do to spiritually alive. It all starts with a choice to be happy and to see what the day has to offer, what chance I will have to give to someone else. One thing is for sure we can not give what we don't have, we can't share love or peace if we don't have it in us first. I first have to love myself to love others, and if it works don't fix it but if something you try doesn't work you must change something in order to get different results.
These past 5 days with Peace being at Trinity has been a great lesson in living in the NOW. She discovered snow on our first outing to the dam on Monday morning, since then when we are out walking she has to go through every patch of snow she sees, slipping, sliding and biting the snow. She finds pleasure in everything she sees, constantly running to keep up, finding sticks and weeds swaying in the wind each a treasure for her but as fast as she picked it up she finds something new, constantly changing according to where she is. That is what I want to do, to enjoy every moment and to be in awe of the things I see and experience. For a period of time I quit doing the things that worked in my life to try to make someone else happy but we can't make anyone else happy, I've made a choice to be happy here at Trinity it's where I feel very connected to Spirit, magic happens here, but it isn't for everyone, it is hard if you think it is but for me it's ideal. The biggest thing I'm learning from watching Peace is that she doesn't take ownership of the things she picks up, instead just enjoys it for the moment, I believe it is what I am going to do, not worry about the what if's or the could have beens, just stay in today taking moment by moment giving thanks for every moment. Getting back on track, happy, grateful, loving and caring and living in Paradise. Life is Good , to be enjoyed, not watched as it passes you by.
I found my Paradise, hope you find your too.