Mel's Musings

There are no right or wrong steps to starting on a spiritual journey. If your soul is calling, eventually you'll hear it.

Why Easy Beats Striving Every Time A few days ago at a women's circle, someone shared about feeling bad about where she is spiritually, like she should be further along in her awakening, more evolved, more... something. I told her what I'm just learning myself: Where I am is awesome. I don't need to be perfect. I don't need to be more. If I were ready for more, I'd be more. But this? This is good. Because this is easy, and easy is more important than constantly striving. For

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I'm actually here to do. For years, I thought my job was to help people. Fix things. Save my family financially. Support everyone emotionally. Use my spiritual gifts to guide people toward their healing. Be useful. Be needed. Be the one who could see what others couldn't and help them get there. And you know what happened? None of them got better. Not from all my trying. I just became more and more exhausted and sometimes, with all m