God* What Should I Do?

This August will be the two year mark of starting this blog.  It was a slow start.  I did one post and then let it sit for about six months.  By then I had figured out the structure of the blog and I've been faithfully posting once or twice a week ever since. Recently I've been wondering if the blog had run its course because it seemed as if I was repeating themes.  One idea that came to me then was this: should I answer the reflective questions that I pose to the readers? In considering this, I went back to the first post that hadn't yet been archived, read it, and I considered the reflective questions from that post.  They seemed really, really hard.

As a result, while still sitting with this dilemma during my journaling time, I asked the question, "God, what should I do?"  The answer I got (the first immediate thing I thought of after asking this question) was Sleep On This.  So that's what I did.   

The next morning I moved into my journaling space thinking "I'd like to write something creatively, like a poem."  But nothing came so I thought about my process which is this:  generally, I write poems from looking back in my journals and reading an old gratitude list or a nighttime dream. My process is to read the list or dream one day and then write a poem the next day after I HAD SLEPT ON IT.

This was my God moment!!!!  As a result, I knew I needed to look at that old post now that I had SLEPT ON IT and see if there had been a change.  The answer is YES!  These same questions didn't seem so hard and I had answers for them right away.  

That old post was from December 17, 2016 and these are the questions and my answers:
Questions:  What are your every day struggles?  How about the shape of your mental, physical or spiritual weight?

Answers:  If I am struggling, which means I have anxieties about something, it is generally because I am not staying grounded in the present.  The best way for me to get away from worrisome thoughts or just general unease is to look outdoors or go outside.  My mental, physical and spiritual weights are healthy because I continue to do the things that I feel God has led me to do:  meditate with a sangha and alone, stretch my body, utilize the holistic services of others (massage, Reike, chiropractic, medical care), enjoy the foods of the earth, eat something such as sweets when my body wants them, get outside often (alone and with others), journal, and ask God questions directly when I am stuck.
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Now for the reflective questions which you can journal about or if you'd like to share your story, the community and I would love to hear from you!  Your comment could have a major impact on someone else.  Most likely it will be just the right thing at the right time for one of the readers. For me, God* wanted me to know that helping even just one person is wonderfully impactful.
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Reflective questions:
1.  What are your every day struggles?  How about the shape of your mental, physical or spiritual weight?

2. What does God* want you to know about this (ask directly, "God, what do you want me to know?")

* I use the term God as a universal term.  You may decide that Great Spirit, Allah, Higher Power, Sensibility, etc. better suits you today.  It is not for me to decide.

Photo by MH (field of clover, Genesee Park)

Note:  These posts are part of a broader call to do spiritual journaling (read more at CardinalTouch.net).