I
never planned any of this, did you? What I mean is that I never planned to
occupy the particular niche in life that I do but, here I am. I wonder if each
soul who comes into the existence we share on this earth is preordained to a
certain destiny. I don’t believe there is any expert who can answer this
question; the only way to brooch it is through the laboratory of our own
experience. The inquiry becomes
more visible when one attains elder-hood.
It’s only natural that as one ages he
attains a higher perspective. He can more readily see the life he has lived
from the vantage point of an overview, those events which have transpired in
his life leading up to whatever height he has obtained in his present
circumstance. In such a way he can actually fathom where his destiny has
brought him thus far.
It also seems to me that as one attains such
an overview as I describe, he can better assess certain defining moments in his
life that have functioned to give shape to his destiny, although he was
possibly witless to this fact when such events transpired.
My
own plan had been to be an artist, an activity which I actually pursued with
great diligence for a number of years. Yet, now from my overview, I can more
readily grasp, that art for me, was a means to an additional ends, and here I
am putting a cap on a career as an instructor of life skills at an area
rehabilitation facility. One of my main objectives at this pursuit, has been teaching people – who
may not do so for any number of reasons – to value themselves. As I see it now,
this had perhaps been my mission right from the start; to teach people to see
themselves as “masterpieces in progress,” utilizing principles that I
originally formulated as an artist. But I never knew that back then.
Possibly, the initial defining moment I am
attempting to reflect on here, is one that transpires from the soul dimension,
is such exists, prior to our entry onto the earth plane. Maybe our destiny
then, is actually cast in the stars, in accord to some master plan in which we
all have had a hand. Through we may or may not ever know the veracity of this
possibility from the station we presently occupy, perhaps when we return to
soul substance, the answer will be made clear.
I was extremely fortunate to find an agency
that embodies these values as a facet of its mission when I started to work at
Goodwill thirty years ago. If I didn’t know it way back then, I certainly do
now; that constancy has been what has sustained my service here all this while.
It will be the very reason to attract others of a similar persuasion to carry
on. There will be a lot of new avenues of service yet to come.
(Harry Corbissero’s final contribution to the InFocus newsletter as he
retires from Goodwill in April 2018 after 30 years of service.)
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