YOUR PORTION IS WAITING FOR YOU
Life is not chasing you.
Life is presenting itself to you.
Slow down.
Pay attention.
Observe.
Receive.
Your portion is already on its way.
BECOME AN OBSERVER & RECEIVER OF LIFE
YOUR PORTION IS WAITING FOR YOU
Life…
Oh life…
How magnificent you are.
What a grand thought in the mind of God, shared generously with all of us.
Not just human life.
All life.
The birds.
The trees.
The oceans.
The animals.
The stars.
The seasons.
The sunrise that never asks permission to arrive.
The sunset that never fails to remind us that beauty exists.
Everywhere we look, life is quietly announcing itself.
And yet many rush right past it.
THE FIRST GREAT MYSTERY
The first mystery we encounter is ourselves.
Who am I?
Why am I here?
Where did I come from?
What am I supposed to do with this life?
These questions have followed mankind since the beginning.
Children ask them naturally.
Adults often get too busy to continue asking.
We become occupied making a living while forgetting to make sense of living.
The Pearls Series repeatedly returns to this point:
Your purpose is not merely to survive.
Your purpose is to live.
Your mandate is to prevail, not fail.
COMPLIMENT AND ENHANCE
Most of us prefer not to travel alone.
We seek companionship.
Friendship.
Marriage.
Partnership.
Community.
Why?
Because life expands when shared.
A good companion does not complete you.
A good companion compliments and enhances you.
They bring out things that may never emerge otherwise.
They challenge you.
Encourage you.
Support you.
Inspire you.
And together, the journey becomes richer than either could have created alone.
LIFE…
STARRING YOU
Here is a thought worth pausing over.
Everything presenting itself before you today is presenting itself to you.
Not someone else.
You.
The conversations.
The opportunities.
The lessons.
The challenges.
The victories.
The disappointments.
The people crossing your path.
Life is not random.
It is interactive.
Planet Earth proudly presents:
YOU.
First appearance anywhere.
Starring role.
Limited engagement.
Do not miss the show.
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
Each morning is an invitation.
A fresh episode.
A new chapter.
Another opportunity to participate.
We rise.
We walk.
We learn.
We help.
We stumble.
We recover.
We laugh.
We cry.
We grow.
Then we rest.
Only to be invited back again tomorrow.
What a remarkable arrangement.
What a generous gift.
DON’T BE DESPERATE TO OWN
One of the great illusions of life is ownership.
We spend enormous amounts of time acquiring things.
Protecting things.
Worrying about things.
Accumulating things.
Yet eventually we leave every single one behind.
This realization is not depressing.
It is liberating.
You are not here to own everything.
You are here to appreciate everything.
Use it.
Respect it.
Enjoy it.
Learn from it.
Share it.
Then let it go when the time comes.
Remember one of the classic Pearls:
Whatever you get into…
Gets into you.
Choose wisely.
BECOME AN OBSERVER
The modern world teaches constant activity.
More.
Faster.
Bigger.
Louder.
But some of life’s greatest treasures reveal themselves only to observers.
The grateful notice them.
The patient discover them.
The attentive receive them.
A flower blooming.
A child’s laughter.
A kind word.
A sunrise.
A friend’s encouragement.
A lesson hidden inside a disappointment.
Life is speaking all day long.
The question is:
Are we listening?
THE RECEIVER POSITION
There comes a point where less effort produces more results.
Not laziness.
Trust.
Not passivity.
Awareness.
Not surrender.
Alignment.
Sometimes the greatest thing you can do is stop forcing.
Stop chasing.
Stop worrying.
Stop controlling.
And begin receiving.
Receiving opportunities.
Receiving wisdom.
Receiving relationships.
Receiving your portion.
THE PEARLS CONNECTION
Throughout Pearls for the Soul runs a recurring theme:
Life is not happening against you.
Life is happening before you.
For you.
Around you.
Through you.
And sometimes because of you.
In God I AM, readers are invited into the great mystery of existence itself.
In Pearls for the Soul, readers are continually encouraged to observe, reflect, discover, and awaken.
In Epilogue of Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge learns that life was always offering him treasures he was too distracted to see.
The same invitation remains today.
Become an observer.
Become a receiver.
YOUR PORTION
All that is meant to be yours will reveal itself in due time.
Not someone else’s portion.
Yours.
Not through panic.
Not through desperation.
Not through comparison.
Through participation.
Through awareness.
Through gratitude.
Through living.
Relax.
Trust the journey.
Observe carefully.
Receive gratefully.
And watch what life places before you.
Your portion is waiting.
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The books support the posts.
The posts support the books.
And both point back to the greatest discovery of all:
The treasure already within you.
You found me…
Now let’s find you.
— Richie
Pearls for the Soul
when you feed the soul, you feed everything.
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