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Spirit Part 2, Life Scripts

For the second in my series on Spirit, I am going to write about Life Scripts. These are very different than Fate. I don't really believe in the concept of "fate". Too many people use fate to avoid taking their personal power and taking responsibility for themselves and their actions. How many times I have heard people say, "Oh, when it is my time to go, I will, and nothing can stop it" and use this as an excuse for stupid behavior! Life Scripts are completely different than Fate, for they always take into account our free will, and the personal power that we are all given by the Creator to make decisions for ourselves.

Before we make the decision to reincarnate from Spirit to this earth plane, we draw up what I call a Life Script. The most important aspect of this script is that we choose our own parents for the lessons that we need to start this life out in a particular way. We might choose happy, loving parents for ourselves, but we might just as easily choose to be born to abusers, molesters, drunks, people with emotional problems... it all depends on what we need to accomplish in this life and what sort of start we want to have. If you consider that you chose your parents, how does that alter your view of your childhood? Your Higher Self, your Spirit Consciousness, chose these people for the lessons that they would teach you! Think about it; how have you leaned the lesson? Did a bad childhood make you a stronger, more determined person? Or did it leave you weak and full of pain? Where you are now cannot be blamed on your childhood, it is a direct result of the decisions that you made about that childhood!

After each of us reaches the age where we can make reasonable decisions for ourselves, we are then in control of our lives and what path we are on. Every moment of every day we are making decisions about every thing that happens to us. Whether we are making good, conscious decisions, or making subconscious emotional decisions is also up to us! If you feel as if you are powerless, living at the whims of others, or are being constantly blown about by the winds of "fate", then you are simply not making informed, conscious decisions. 

We are constantly meeting crossroads in our lives. Most are minor ones: do I turn left or turn right, do I eat this or eat that, do I read a book or watch TV, do I eat a carrot or a candy bar? Some are major: do I accept this job or that one, do I get into a relationship with this person or not, do I drink alcohol, take drugs, sleep with this person, allow this person to tell me what to do? Try to look at your life as a road, with every major decision that you ever made as a fork in that road. You chose which way to go. Each fork led you to exactly where you are today. You may feel as if you did not have a choice at the time, but you always did. It is your free will that led you to where you are today, for good or for bad. If you are not happy with where your path has led you, then look upon where you are now as a fork in the path, make a new decision based on all the information that you have, and change!

You exist where you are right now, as who you are right now, based on the decisions you have made in your life. You cannot blame it on your parents or your childhood. You cannot blame it on your partner. You have made your path, based on your Life Script, which foresaw all the potential decisions you might or might not make. If you find this confusing, let me give you an example. My husband Bobby chose to be born to a couple that were most likely not going to stay married. He knew this going in. He knew the potential for his mother to divorce, and then remarry. When she did remarry, she chose a homosexual pedophile. This man then began molesting Bobby. After some years, Bobby made the decision to get away from this man. First major fork in the road. After getting away, Bobby had a lot of emotional pain to deal with. Next major fork: how to deal with this pain? Bobby chose drugs and alcohol. Now he is on a new path. In his Life Script, this was always a potential possibility. Now the question became how long he would stick to this path. As his life progressed, he continued to make major decisions, admittedly under the influence of the drugs and alcohol, but he made them nonetheless. Eventually, his path met my path. I was making some poor choices then myself. But still, we managed to make one good decision: to make our paths run parallel to each other's. This too was a known potential in both of our life scripts. 

As we made decisions based on the fact that we were now together, some were good and some were bad. Bobby continued to use drugs and alcohol. We came to a major fork: he would quit and stay with me, or he wouldn't, and then our paths would separate. He made the decision to quit. Unfortunately, his decision came too late to avoid certain consequences from his drug and alcohol abuse. One of these was contracting diabetes. Now, his higher being knew that this was a potential when the Life Script was drawn up. But he was NOT fated to get diabetes. It was just one of the possible outcomes. If he had made different decisions anywhere along the path, he most likely would not have gotten diabetes. Now he has it. Major fork: is he going to take care of himself, or is he not? If he takes care of himself, most likely he will still have a long and symptom-free life. If he does not, he will most likely die at a younger age than he would otherwise. Every day he makes decisions about this. Happily, he makes good decisions. But he could have just as easily made decisions that shortened his life. So, when he ultimately does pass, how can anyone say, "Oh it was just his time to go."? It could have been his time many other times!

Some people choose very difficult Life Scripts for themselves before they come back. They chose to be developmentally disabled, have terrible birth defects, or to develop a devastating illness later on. This is to allow themselves the chance to transmute tremendous amounts of Karma in one lifetime, thus making great strides. Some only chose to come back for a short while, choosing to return to Spirit quickly. This will account for crib deaths, or the death of children. Hard for those of us left behind, but there was a reason for it, even if we don't know the reason until we, too, return to Spirit. Then all becomes clear.
Your loved one in Spirit chose their own paths. They made their own decisions. Hopefully they made good decisions while they were here, and learned the lessons they came here to learn. But if they didn't, if they got lost on their path, the good news is that they will get another chance. We all get another chance to do it right. We get as many chances as we need. That is one of the true beauties of the Universe. Everyone gets a second chance.

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