Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Surfing the Breakers of Serendipity


What being spiritually fit  means to me is the ability to surf the breakers of serendipity, moving with the spirit of compassion. Professionals have carved out lucrative careers, as they ought, helping people with the medical, psychological and legal problems some of us have endured and their expertise is sometimes daunting. However, where professionals often lack the skills in the arena of personal experience, we who have experienced such things as cancer, mental disorders and the labyrinthine tangles of our justice system can become useful assets as valuable adjuncts to doctors, therapists, police and attorneys. Volunteering our compassion, experience and understanding in therapy groups, visiting mental institutions and jails, or participation in alcohol and drug addiction recovery, helps us as well as those we serve. Those of us who have recovered from a hopeless state of mind and body can easily open hearts, transmitting the precious gift of hope to those who suffer. This phenomenon is no mystery to us because we have been there and know how we would have needed to be reached in their place.


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