The Gates of Life

Things here have taken an interesting turn. The local ambulance company turned down my application. This really came as quite a shock to me. They citied my driving record as the reason. I really feel this is incorrect since I still have a commercial drivers license and my last job was driving over the road for swift. The requirements for commercial driving are much more strict than for operating a emergency vehicle. So this really bummed me out for a day or so. I'm now wondering if this is an other gate.
In life you come across gates, challenges set in your path to help define you and test your ability to cope and adapt to life. These are set out for everyone and some move through them faster than others. Some do not even notice them and others see them for what they are, opportunities to demonstrate our power to recreate our lives as we see fit. To re-educate our ourselves and remind ourselves that the universe in paying attention to the moves we make and the decisions we reach. Each gate is a marker and a staging area to map out the next part of your life. No one knows how long each journey will be, the only way to find out is to make the trip and see where the next gate lies. Each gate leads to the next level of your life. You have many choices as you approach a gate and each gate has it's own set of rules. You can try to cross without learning the new rules, this only leads to pain and more work. You could decide that there isn't anything on the otherside that's worth seeing and stay on this side for the rest of time. Or you can embrace the change that's coming and make it yours. You can decide how you want to life to be on the other side.
the rules for each gate are different. Sometimes you must let go of fear and doubt in order to pass. Other times you must release some burden or strife you've carried to survive in the next level. It is an interesting note the these gates do not appear unless the traveler is ready for the challenge that it presents. "When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear." The traveler does not know this, and will proceed with only hope and the lessons already learned to guide him. Only those who change are allowed passage though the gate. Entrance to the next path does have it's costs. Those who pass through the gate and proceed down the path will never find joy in the distractions of the previous path, those things that blinded the traveler from the journey at hand fade away and no longer give the seeker any comfort. This is not a bad thing, for the seeker doesn't need these things anymore, like a child's used toys, once the center of attention, now discarded to a box in the attic. This is the way of the distractions, once the focus of our lives, then the burden of our lives. By passing through the gates of life we are able to filter ourselves down to the Essence of ourselves, down to the part of us that exists without fear, without hate, the perfect part of the universe that embodies each of us. This filtering lets us pass through each gate less encumbered. No one can know how many gates there are until they reach the last one. At this gate the traveler will leave what he has not yet already discarded, all fear and doubt, all pain and anger, all pride and all sorrow. It is at this gate that the seeker travels begin again, this time he has only his essence to carry with him to the next level. I have reached other gate in my life. I feel pretty good about that.


sungod~