The question was asked:

What is the intention of your life?

What do you ‘intend’ to accomplish in your lifetime?

This required some thought.

There have been many things that I have thought were my Life Path, but always at the base level has been the need to help others.  At heart I am a teacher and I have thought for many years that teaching was my destiny.  I am getting close to 70 years of age and I have recently discovered, on a Journey to find who I am without my wounds, that I have a host of neuro-divergent traits which coloured my life with fear and uncertainty.  The last few years have been a journey of discovery, acceptance and eventual forgiveness, and that journey has resulted in some major changes in how I view the world I travel through.

It was interesting that this question came up when it did.  Only the previous day, something occurred which set me to doing a deep dive into almost the same question, and it was triggered by a conversation with a meditation student who had read my book The New Storyteller.  In that book, I show through a number of short stories that it is possible to take a life story and look at it from a different perspective.  This was how I had changed my life, and my meditation student had taken that advice and was on the first steps towards changing her story from something dark into something potentially healing.

What was still lacking for me, on my Journey, was Inner Peace.  Therapy had shown that the only emotion I understood was that of Fear.  Over the past couple of years I have discovered how to be Happy; how Receive as well as Give.  I have discovered Joy and Beauty and so much more, but being able to wrap all these emotions into one package that I could hold in my heart and call Peace was like trying to hold water in a paper bag.  My Journey in this lifetime has been to find that deep Inner Peace, something that is so elusive for so many people that it can feel impossible to achieve.

In understanding what I, personally, needed to learn in this lifetime, I have been able to expand that into contemplation of what I want accomplish, and not just what I want to accomplish, but I am here to accomplish.  I now know who I am, now I need to look at why.  What is it I am here to achieve.

I needed, first, to recognise my lack of inner peace – and that has been my journey over the the last few months as have I come to accept that much of my fear has come about because of the confusion of not understanding, at a most basic and physical level, the workings of my mind and how I move through the world; and so I have worked towards unravelling of the mysteries of what makes me ‘tick’ and the result is, as I sit here writing this, I finally recognise this Peace within me. 

Can I hold it, come what may?  Not a chance, not yet – but those moments, like this one as I type this post, are like gemstones in a river – beautiful and precious. 

What do I intend to accomplish in this life time? 

It is my writing that brings me Peace, and it was my meditation student who showed me the path that I now see was always there, hidden in dense energy of fear.  When I write, I feel that Peace.  I also feel the emotion of the story that the words are portraying.  I feel a connection through those words to the person who is reading them.  I write for that one person.  I write for you – you who are reading these words, and it is my hope that in these words you find something that inspires you to bring something that is beautiful and peaceful into your life. 

My intention is to touch, through my writing, the soul of another human in a way that encourages them to seek their own healing journey.