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Please consider sharing a follow-up story about how writing and posting your question, or reading someone else's question made a difference in your life. My hope is to create a global conversation between human beings in which a deeper level of inquiry and wisdom can be shared and witnessed by each other.
The Question: "What direction should I take to fulfill the desire to work in a deeper, more heartfelt way with people?"
I was sharing with my husband that I felt a growing dissatisfaction in my work and I wanted to move in another direction but didn't know what that direction was. I said that if I had to do it all over again I would go into the seminary. I didn't think it was possible at this point in my life so I dismissed the idea.
The answer came when I ran into a friend at church I hadn't seen in a while. We were chatting about a number of things when she casually mentioned she was researching seminary programs. It felt as if a gong went off inside my body as I realized my question was being answered in that moment and within a few months I was enrolled as an Interfaith seminary student.
The Question: "Should I continue on my set course of becoming a psychotherapist or detour and take the practitioner training of a Japanese Healing Art?"
I was attending college with the intention of becoming a psychotherapist but decided to take an introductory class in a Japanese Healing Art. Within the first few weeks I felt a growing affinity towards this work, and I started to question whether the goal of becoming a therapist was the right path or whether the healing art was a more natural direction for me. I felt a strong pull to sign up for next practitioner training yet if I did I would need to drop the next semester of classes at the college.
The answer came one night in a dream. The woman who brought the Japanese healing art to the US came to me in the dream and told me I was to study with her. This dream had such a direct message that I immediately signed up for the up coming training. In the practitioner training it became self evident that this was the work I wanted to do. I studied with the Japanese teacher for the next several years and became a practitioner and teacher.
The Question: "God, please give me a sign that will help me decide whether I should have another child or not?"
I was wrestling with the decision of whether I should have another child, my son was 12 years old and I was rapidly approaching 40. On the one hand it felt right to do it but for a number of reasons I was afraid. The question was beginning to haunt me and I felt unsettled every time I thought about it.
The answer came in the middle of a meditation when I felt a presence with me. This presence had quite a distinct youthful feminine personality and in a very forth right way "she" started to tell me she was the daughter who was waiting to come to me and my husband. One by one she addressed my exact fears. My daughter is almost 11 years old now and there isn't a day that goes by when I don't feel gratitude she is in my life.
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