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Have you ever thought about time. We know we have addressed this
previously but at this point we want again to highlight an issue regarding its
relevance in controlling, or being used to control your life and your activities
in that life. If we were to mention a time and date in your life you will
automatically relate to an event that occurred then. You will say that was when
such and such happened. If we were to refer to the event, however, you will
not automatically refer to the time and date. Does this not suggest that the
event is more important than time? Yet humankind has become preoccupied
with measured time. Irrespective of time, what else led you to the event? In
one word, circumstance. Circumstance, the dictionary tells you, “is a fact or
condition connected with or relevant to an event or action”. The circumstances
come about due to choices you have made leading you to an event that is a
marker of where your life is going, as a result of those choices. Remember, we
have said nothing is good or bad. These definitions only relate to the suitability
of your choice being favourable to your needs, and not to your wants. You
need to know if your choices are appropriate to you in your life journey, and
the you we refer to is you your Spirit. It might appear that the decision you
made was unfavourable to your spiritual needs even though it might have been
a want of your ego. Then again it might have been favourable to your spiritual
needs and to your ego, thus showing a harmony of both these aspects of your
being. It could be said that the bad event in your life was really when you
satisfied your ego impulses and over rode your spiritual instincts, even though
you got a certain comfort from it, but were left with an emptiness. It could be
called, “a hollow victory” of ego over Spirit. In recognising these scenarios
you will be more discernible in the choices you are making and in turn find
that life is not always a battle to ‘do the right thing’. If you like life is a series
of possibilities being presented to you to bring you to your goal.