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Following Our Path

© Yvette Deluca

There comes a point in almost everyone’s live when they question our purpose here on Earth. We start to wonder what, exactly we were sent here to do. We wander through life lost, searching for our Way, stumbling through the dark and praying that Spirit will hand us a flashlight. We forget Spirit has already illuminated our path for us. We only need to open the door to the Upper Rooms of our mind and take a look.
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Sometimes we can see Spirit’s work for us clearly. The path is lit and all we must do is follow it. Yet, still we stumble and fall. Walls of uncertainty, fear and self-doubt stand in the way like oceans with no shore in site. In the bible, self-doubt is called false humility and we are warned against it. Colossians 2:1-19 reads “ Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.”

I have been struggling with this issue for some time now. There has been a tremendously positive response to the articles I have written for this column and honestly, I started suffering from a bout of “false humility.” I found myself questioning my ability and competence to share my thoughts on spirituality with the world. “What business do I have writing about Spiritual issues? I’m not perfect.” And “ How can I write about topics that I am still working through myself” Since most of my writing is of a spiritual nature, I stopped writing completely for a while. I lost my way even though my path was illuminated for me. I refused to look at what Spirit was asking. What did I gain for my efforts? Absolutely nothing. Like Jonah and the whale, Spirit kept beating me over the head, trying to make a Point. I went through the months, trying to convince myself that I was doing the right thing by ignoring the call to write, while all the time watching more of what I considered “Me” to slip away.

Yeah.. Spirit made It’s point, alright. In the past few months, I’ve lost most of my material things and pushed a lot of people from my life. I have only myself to blame. I showed false humility and did not “hold fast to the Head.” I left my Path because I forgot that Spirit is in everything I do. I forgot that I am only the vessel for Spirit’s work. All ideas and inspirations that come to me I receive from Spirit.