So, I go to bed at about 12:30 AM., and need to wake up at 5:00 AM. to take pain medication. But I really need also to get out of bed to change the positioning of body enough so as to relieve the pain. (Also, during those night hours, I awake almost every time I have to turn in bed so as not to cause even greater pain.) So I usually meditate from 5:00 to 5:30 AM; then work until 7:30, when I eat my breakfast. After breakfast, it is help

Exhausted Kitty

with our two dogs as one is just 17 weeks old and still has house-breaking issues. (And all that almost unbounded energy.)

After this is done, I read until I cannot keep my eyes open and usually sleep between 9:00 and 10:00 AM. Exercise the dogs, eat lunch and then nap from 1:00 to 2:30 or 3:00 PM. Sounds like luxury, right? NOT. Work till supper. Work after supper. Start all over again. Between lack of uninterrupted sleep and the pain medication I never feel rested. The point of this saga?

I feel I have little time. I am with you if you feel you don’t have enough time, for whatever reason. I just wanted you to see that I know how you feel, if you feel you don’t have enough time.

Two things: The great sages have said and say, there will be enough time for everything needful; and make the best of what you do have. I was reading Neale Donald Walsch, of Conversations with God fame, and he said, as 2009 closed, things get done just as there are supposed to. I was amazed. But when I thought it through, I saw some truth. When you are sincere about your life and work, things will get done as they need to. Yes, the things that are truly required in my life – get done. It sounds strange. Feels strange. But I find it to be true. Try it on and see if it works for you too.

Make the best of the time you’ve got. Obviously statement? Maybe. Maybe not. People with limited time sometimes pressure themselves into cramming too much into too little time. They never relax – thinking they don’t have time. Here’s a quote from Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was chided for taking a month per year off. He replied, it is said, “I can do 12 months of work in 11, but I can’t do 12 months of work in 12.” (Something like that.) The point is, he was better able to work when he had sufficient rest and relaxation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes when he was appointed to the Supreme Court

If you are resting to be more invigorated when you do work, you have a good plan, in my estimation. In other words, make the best of the time you do have. There are all kinds of tools to be found on the Internet to help you with time management, if you need them. If you are just feeling guilty over not “spending enough time,” maybe you need to stop the guilt-trip. When you do cease to feel guilty about your responsible use of time, you will get more done. I know; that’s where I am now.

Declare your time independence. Just use the time you have wisely. Everything will get done that needs doing. Just look how long God has been working. When you use your time wisely, you find yourself smack in the middle of the meaning of life: to be happy. Why? How? When in connection with God at the core of your being, you find bliss, that bliss is then beamed into the world. One of the ways that happens is through the guilt-free, responsible use of the time you have.

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When I asked about work, I sensed his personal intensity grow immediately. We had hit the tingling nerve. He was just not happy in his work. I was surprised to hear him say that he could not use his creativity in his job. Bosses wanted exactly as they prescribed, no more, no less. He did a good job of that and even won two promotions over the seven years he had been with the company. But he felt stifled, cut off from himself.

I was surprised because men don’t usually bring up this sort of discomfort. They kept it to themselves thinking that sharing it is unmanly. But this is part of the meaning of life which is to be happy.

When our creative side is thwarted, we cannot express the happiness we carry inside out in the corporal world. Then we will feel as if something is missing. We are missing participation in the meaning of life. This was Fred’s base problem.

His base problem? The problem that was causing all his other meaning of life problems.

Fred asked the question, “What am I to do? I, of course, need the job. Just can’t quit. Family to support and all that. What am I going to do?”

I told him simply that he needed to find the freedom and the means to express himself creatively. What was it he felt he wanted to do, creatively? He wanted to build furniture. He said he had ideas for unique pieces and he wanted to try those ideas out.

We explored this possibility. Did he have the tools? No. Could he afford to buy them? Yes. Would his family be on board with him taking some time to play with his ideas? He thought they would as they had several times remarked at how restless he seemed.

“But do I have the right to do this?” he asked. I asked him what he meant by “right.” He said it had to do with breaking the mold of always toeing the line as he had ben taught as a child. Then we got to the foundational problem.

Foundational problem? He was taught that happiness and the meaning of life were straight-jacketed into routine. His nurturing family did not believe in creativity. His father worked 40 years in the same job, for example. (Nothing wrong with that in itself.)

Yes, I said, you have every right to express yourself as you see fit. You are free to do that. Besides, I said, he could start in his spare time and see if it turned into a career where he was not stifled. Maybe it would be no more than an important hobby but some folks, I told him, definitely make a good living creating hand-crafted furniture.

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Fred left the office beaming. You can be beaming too. Find what it is that expresses your happiness and do it. Starting today; starting now. You’ll be fulfilling the meaning of life.

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However, in the days when the Declaration was first written, to pursue happiness had more of the meaning to practice happiness. So, we are free to practice happiness. We can do the things we wish as long as we harm no one else (that is, for the most part, break no laws). We are free to be what we wish to be: good, bad or indifferent. (We may get locked up for doing bad things.) But we can strive to a great contributor to our culture. Or we can be a couch-potato all our lives and no one will really hassle us about that. The point, of course, is that there are many places in the world where this cannot be. People are not free. (Indeed, in some countries, women are slaves, pure and simple. Certainly, we have and had exceptions in our own country too. People for reasons of their religion, race, culture, etc., have been enslaved or abused. We cannot simply gloss that over and pretend it never happened.)

However, I believe we can say, and I hope I am right, we are the freest people on earth.

Now, I need to go further and say to you that no matter your circumstances, you are free in your spirit and can be free in your spirit. The seat, the throne of happiness is your spirit as connected to The Source of All That Is. In this freedom, you are truly free. Short of torture beyond endurance, no one can take your happiness away from you because it resides in your spirit. There have even been incidents where persons of extreme spiritual resolve had kept their happiness even in torture beyond normal human fortitude.

Life’s meaning is found in being happy. Being happy is found in your spirit. Your spirit is found as your engage yourself with The Source. Freedom reminds us all of the meaning of life, to be happy.

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