The Spiritual Path

When we are ready to start walking a spiritual path,

a very quick way to begin or start over is to assume that we are already on it.

All of our lives, we have been breathing.

We may not be conscious of our inhalations and exhalations,

but they have been happening, constantly.

Likewise, all of our lives, we've been on a spiritual journey.

When we pay more attention to anything we consider spiritual:

soul, inner guidance, compassion, kindness,

meditation, patience, presence,

devotion, sacred time, rest,

wholeness

unity

we step more

presently

onto the spiritual path.

We take the next step,
we decide how rapidly and how often Love is present on Earth

by how rapidly and how often we answer
Love's constant call for our presence.

When we live this way,

the spiritual path doesn’t happen only in the moments

when we go on a spiritual retreat,

to a church meeting

or a meditation or a peaceful gathering of like-minded,

like-hearted people,

it happens every moment,

whenever we take a breath.

Once we learn to take a breath of divine Love,

we give Love the opportunity to be present,

to influence us,

all of us,

and guide us to greater spiritual Truth and Unity.

It may sound distant,

it may sound ephemeral,

but really it is solid and sound.

It is the foundation that puts the heart back into our walk on Earth,

for the air smells sweeter,

like you stepped into fields of lilacs

when you are in Love.

Love is the inspiration that

keeps us stepping on the path

we are already on.

And, that, in a breath,

is the spiritual path.

Love,

Atala