In Love & Joy
Michael Levy. Professional Optimist
http://www.pointoflife.com/
"Divine bliss is the common property of humankind." _Michael Levy
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From the book The Joys of Live Alchemy

The Whys in the Road
by Michael Levy

Each day in our lives there are decisions to be made. Most are small but
nevertheless can have significant impact on our happiness. We amble along and make
the most of each situation we face as the result of our actions. But there
will come a time when we come to a BIG fork in the road ... A big Y.
Do we turn left or right?

Perhaps we have been laid off from a job we had for twenty years or more?
Maybe we are confronting a divorce after twenty years of matrimony or was it
purgatory?

Possibly we are grieving after the tragic death of a loved one for whom we
cared and nurtured for many loving years?

Perhaps we are 'worried sick' about a war with Iraq and all the ramifications
from other countries.

Could our sick stock portfolio be a reason we are visiting the doctor?

Maybe we’ve been diagnosed with a debilitating illness.

Which road are we to follow now and where will it take us?
How do we make our decisions?
To whom do we listen?
Do we take the advice of a good friend who means well, but has not grasped
true meaning in their life?
Do we take the counsel of our doctor who has not found the cure or the
reason for his own illness?
Should we listen to our accountant, lawyer or broker, who could have a host
of corporations giving them commission for all the clients they send? Who is it
we can trust?

The road ahead has many twists and turns. Even if we choose the correct
route, why then, many diversions and detours will be placed in our way. And should
we choose the wrong route, why then, we will only get lost at many junctions
which will take us deeper into the abyss of a nomadic erratic life. Many why's
to ponder.


The biggest being
Why Me?
Why is life treating ME so cruelly?
What have I done to deserve this?

The answers are as complex as the life we fabricate. If we have fabricated a
life of little meaning, then … Why-becomes-Because. We have traveled routes
that were enjoyable when our journey started but became boring or monotonous as
it wound its way round each bend in the road. Many times, we stopped short. We
did not go the extra mile.
We forgot to tell our loved ones how much we loved them every day.
We forgot to pleasingly complete the job in hand at work, which would have
given an outstanding result instead of just a good result.
We forgot to forgive a relative or friend and now they are gone forever.
We ignored the warning signs our body was telling us and carried on
regardless of stressful symptoms.
We ignored the warning signs the stock market was telling us. Fear and greed
ruled. Then, all of a sudden … `Too late be the cry.' Could these be a few of
the reasons to the question why?

There are probably enough Whys in our lives to put us in a state of
depression for a long and unhappy time and then end up dying of some incurable dis-ease.
One of the oldest adages is "as you sow so shall you reap."

Now many times we will say I have always thought good thoughts about folks
and I have always done what it is that was expected of me. But expected by whom,
other folks who are asking why? Could it be a case of the blind leading the
blind into a fabricated life that is man made and has lost Universal guidance.
Are we so intent in pleasing a misguided society that we go down the wrong
route even though our instinct and intuition are telling us `No don't go that
way.'

Could it be we have taken the wrong fork in the road many years ago, and now
we are just realizing we are back at the crossroads? Perhaps we were at the
crossroads many years ago but our minds, we were so fogged up by polluted
thoughts, we drove into a future crisis, with no map to find our way out.

You will hear many people say life is a struggle. Life is an endurance test.
We have to suffer to gain heavenly bliss. These jumbled-up thoughts were
handed-down to people, generation after generation, for thousands of years. Now
many believe this to be our truth. That is why we are at the fork in the road and
do not know which way to go.

Our Whys have no answer, for when we say; "that is how it is. It is destiny.
It is fate. It is impossible to be in Joy all the time."

For all the folks who think this way, why then, that is how it is. So they
will continue to say Why me, and never will they come close to a significant
answer. Not until the `Why Me' tune into the `Real Me's route to happiness. When
we begin to follow wisdom's blueprint of the super infinite highway all is
unburdened. Only then will we find the correct route in the Y's of life.

The Whys, within the crossroads, which lead to wisdom's intelligence of
boundless thoroughfares to joy.
It takes many years of practice to obtain anything close to perfection. In
Spirit, there are No choices, No freewill, No Why's in the road. There is only
perfection, with an infinite truthfulness of dimensions of divine bliss. When
we progress down life's path with the wisdom of universal intelligence as our
guide, we find we ride the on a first class ticket, luxuriously surrounded by
mother earths richness.

We find wellness is an absence of illness and we live well.

Financially, wealth finds its way to us. We do not need to chase after it. We
magnetize everything we need by understanding we need very little to enjoy
life.
And there lays the secret... We need to enjoy living life as a servant of
spirit and not try to be its master.
Why? ...Why, then we find it is impossible not to be in JOY 24 hours a day.
Every day-in, every way … And it gets better all the time.
It is the only true free-way to prosperity.
Time to encompass; The Real "Me.”... Our True, Ageless, Unrestrained Soul.

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Michael Levy is the author six books." Michael's poetry and essays now grace
many web sites, Journals and Magazines throughout the world. His web site is
ranked number one in the world out of 25,000,000 web sites when "Inspirational
books" are the search words on Google's search engine.
Michael is an authentic living alchemist. He is an unusual poet, alchemy
philosopher and uncommon author, who writes from the heart and soul.
Michael's new books "Worry Causes Wrinkles" and "The Joys of Live Alchemy"
are now available in all bookstore.
http://www.pointoflife.com/


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