Follow your bliss. Find joy. Seems like very easy to follow sound advice. However, it does not feel at all easy to follow when you are standing on the edge of an unnerving precipice or finding yourself firmly at rock bottom. These are the times when I am most frantically searching for answers to the "big questions." Find joy, so often is the answer I receive. What does it mean to find joy? If it were as simple as finding pleasure in the moment, how could I possibly find myself lost or alone ever? And yet, I do.
The most recent time I found myself contemplating the question "what now" and it's resounding answer "find joy," I learned a great deal about the question, the answer and the person asking and answering. I sat with my metaphoric feet dangling from the edge of a terrifying chasm . . . a fissure that lay ominously between reality and my attachment to having myself and my life look a certain way. I realized that it was only me and my belief that things should be different than they are. If I could, even for a moment, set that belief aside, I could see more clearly.
Breathing into the reality of any moment always brings clarity. And so, I breathed in what was . . . what is . . . and I found that the rocky ledge I stood upon was where my greatest joy was waiting, not on a distant projection I could only hope to reach. To start with gratitude and find joy in asking "am I enough?," to find elation in having the trials that bring that question to my lips . . . that is following my bliss. That is finding joy.
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