Karma is a topic that has me curious. We are led to believe "do unto others as we want done unto us" and that "what comes around goes around".
In my spiritual journey, I have followed one principle first. "give it all up to get it all back".
To summarize some of what we have given........
We have helped friends starting businesses, taken friends (one recovering from cancer) on hiking trips to Kuaii and Arizona. We helped finish a perilous basement reno attempt after the jerk husband drained the bank account and left our friend with two kids destitiute.We helped find a part time job for a friend who left a depressing desk job to follow her dream of being a writer. We gave a friend her first 1000 copies of her childrens book about her son's fight with luekemia, and donated them to schools, hospitals, and doctors offices around the province.
We helped a friend get beds for her kids after she separated, and provided her with support while she nursed her cancer stricken mother at home until she passed. We opened our home for 6 months to an abused client and her young friend. We found the young girl a car, and lent them enough gym equipment to start a small gym from home. We have found a home for another friend with (another abusive husband) for her three girls and her to have for a while. She introduced us to the girls as "the christmas angel". We gave our spare vehicle to a friend, after she was rear-ended helping us move. Her car was a write off and her ex kept the insurance payout. This is only a partial list.......What we give up is help and emotional support, and an open door policy on our home.
What we get back is immeasurable.
We have amazing vacations with perfect weather and very few hiccups. We get the right people at the right time with the right resource or knowledge. We get these fit healthy bodies that lug heavy backpacks over miles of hiking trails. We get the last room available, with the best view of the Sydney opera house. We get a dry Kalalau Trail, just days after rainy season, combined with el-nino providing us with the highest surf in 50 years thundering into the cliff sides as the salt sprays our faces. We get heli rides above clouds and mountain tops, landing on glaciers in New Zealand. We get an amazingly patient instructor for me to cling to during my terrifying open water scuba certification in the Bahamas. We scuba dive in Bora Bora and hear and see a humpback whale. We have pods of dolphins racing beside the cruise ship. We buy my dream house, one that I had driven by for years, when it wasn't even up for sale. We hiked the grand canyon in 105 F degree heat, that lasted maybe an hour, as we asked for some rain to cool the place down a little, and the universe delivered. We take wrong turns on road trips across unbelievably beautiful landscapes, and pretend to live in this town or that town and what we'd do for a living there.
We have learned that throughout our travels, we are connected to something so great and beautiful. We are living our highest purpose, helping and serving those in need, making the people we love lives a little easier.
give it all up, in whatever way you can, material, emotional...
get it all back, you won't know how, but guaranteed it'll be beautiful.
