It should never be one sided

Seeing as Asclepius is the Greek god of Healing, the wise person I visualized was the ultimate.  In the end, I experienced a more heartfelt acceptance for things being the way they are.  I was calmer and noticed I wasn’t so quick to speak when I conversed with people afterward; rather I tried to gain an understanding of their thoughts yet continued with confidence in my words.

The saying “One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself” is just like the question “How can you help take a splinter out of another’s eye when you have a log in your own?”  You can’t show the correct path to someone else if you don’t fully understand it yourself.  I do believe that one must be obligated to develop and evolve them before tending to their clients or patients; otherwise one might put themselves at a higher level of standard and create a barrier for optimum healing.  The other must feel it too.

To encourage my psychological and spiritual growth, I actually just got back from a community focus meeting from church.  Our aim is to try and reach out to the community next door and show them the light.  I believe that not only will these people be transformed through loving-kindness, but we as a team and ourselves individually will also flourish, learn and grow from this experience as well.

Unit 6: My new starting point

I feel a sense that all human-kind is able to achieve happiness and wholeness and to release themselves from needless suffering; I also inhibit the motivation that I, myself, have the power to guide this human-kind on the path to their inner flourishing.
I've made note that I must help my family first and foremost before I can fully engage myself in the lives of others.  On the other hand, work has been my  #1 distress and I've noticed that I've allowed my work environment to recently begin pulling me back into the physical world of resentment and hate which I bring back home.  I began to start preparing myself for a change in work environment, but realized I was trapped because of a contract I had signed until my braces come off.  And then I read of the story told in the East about the woodcarver, and it all came back to me about why I'm here in this world.  It's not to live in hate, but to live in love and realize that everything has a purpose, I just need to have faith!  I once again embraced the Serenity prayer:

God,
Give me the SERENITY to accept the things I can not change,
the COURAGE to change the things I can,
and the WISDOM to know the difference

So I made a plan to let go of all the things I don't have control over and remembered to have as much fun as I can even in the heat of the stress at work.  I did feel much better...  Ironically, I got a call from my ortho that next day, offering me a position at their office (my only physical outlet option from my current job because the deal I had made was with them.)  Again, patience is definitely a virtue and God does work in mysterious ways - I'm tellin' ya!  This decision does require a bit of contemplating though, because I will be getting a significant pay deduction especially if I want to keep my health benefits.  Although, for what it might be worth (my hope), I see this as an opprotunity knocking on my door for further growth and developement and my heart is strongly urging me to accept it in.  I'll let God handle the rest and we'll see where I end up...