It seems I just wrote the last newsletter and yet it was six month ago. That old saying of time really flies when you are having fun must be true...for time has flown for me and I was having fun. Hope the past six months have been enjoyable for all of you too.
There are so many changes coming into my life and into the "life" of the Foundation. It feels almost like what I imagine a butterfly would feel as it makes it metamorphic changes...changes that are necessary to achieve its final beauty. I’m not really one who likes change. I lived in the same house for over 25 years until I moved last October. Then I moved back to my parents’ house...the one I’d lived in as a teenager. Not much of a change there. Frankly, I’m the kind of person who would like to have made a friend at age 7 and still have them as my friend when I die as an old woman!! But I’ve recently started to look at change in a different way...that change is really only an opportunity for progress in a person’s life...a chance to become more. I’ve become more accepting of the idea that some people come into your life for a reason...some people come for a season...and some people come for life. If we look back over our lives I’m sure we all know people who came for a reason...like the person who helped us decide on which college was the correct one for us, or the person who said just the right words to encourage us when we were feeling down or unsure of ourselves. People who come into our lives for a season are there for a longer time, but then it ends too and while we may be sad, we understand.
In my life, a person like that was Paul Jacobs, the British medium who came to America to work for the IFSK for 3 years. Each time he was here he pushed me a bit more and expected me to grow into a fully functioning working professional Medium. Without Paul’s influence I would not be a working Medium or a Tutor Trainee at the Arthur Findlay College in England. He was so important but really only for a season. People who come into our lives for a lifetime are the ones that really help us grow...really help us develop our values and who we are. My ex-husband is one of those people for me. While we were only married 5 years out of the 20 or so years we’ve know each other, we really do have a positive effect on each other. We have helped each other by being honest when we needed an outside opinion...and that has helped us both grow into better people. And really everything in life is there for a reason, a season, or for a lifetime...jobs, hobbies, whatever...all to help us become the best we can be. So consider looking at change in that positive way. Change is only the means to becoming that beautiful butterfly who flies freely and happily in amongst beautiful flowers.
Hope to see you soon!!