What hapfull way will you be today?

Linda Adsetts and The Group are here with their weekly Go for the Joy message. Enjoy!

 

Hapfull is the opposite of hapless and what if hapless people also end up being hapfull?

This past weekend we joined our son in Squamish for a day where he was rock climbing with a friend. Squamish is a climbing mecca that is easily accessed off of the sea to sky highway and therefore very popular.

The Chief is a big imposing rock face that has climbers alternately drooling at the prospect of climbing and quaking in their boots. It turns out that climbers, more often than not climb with fear as their company.

Climbing is a solitary event that usually requires a companion to spot you and belay for you. (A belayer holds the rope at the bottom in the event you fall so that you won’t fall quite as far) I believe that climbing is a solitary activity, because when you are on a rock face, it is just you and the rock. You can’t allow yourself to be distracted.

So as my husband and I watched our youngest son climb we marveled at his concentration, his strength and his commitment to this much loved activity of his.

As he reached the top of “Burgers and Fries” (all of the climbing faces have names) he cried out “Redemption!” Once he reached the bottom I asked him what he meant. He told me that last year he had climbed that same face and fell twenty feet landing on, thank God, the smooth surface at the bottom. I am very glad to have not been there to witness that particular rite of passage!

But this story is also about another climber that showed up while he was there. This older climber seemed to be inebriated and he was smoking. He had a dog with him who looked entirely uncomfortable with the outing. The story as told to me, by my husband, was that this climber proceeded to solo up the face without gear and a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Despite his condition he made it to the top and back down. This was not an easy climb-not a walk in the park but not the hardest there was. This hapless fellow found the finger and toe holds that I couldn’t see from the bottom and climbed without ropes, anchors and of course a helmet.

As I heard the story, my first thought was wow what a moment of grace. But, this grace didn’t only include the hapless gentleman who in his own way was hapfull, but encompassed the other onlookers. The story could have had a more unfortunate ending that would have involved everyone on the face of the rock and at the bottom of it. Angels must have been plentifully abundant that day!

My son wasn’t as wowed by it as I was. In climbing there is an amount of responsibility inherent in being part of the climb whether you are the climber or the belayer. His reality didn’t say wow-his said ***hole! It turns out he had been drinking when he fell and angels were plentifully abundant that day also. He had obviously judged himself for that choice and called himself far harsher names.

I imagine that the hapfull/hapless climber’s story would have been one of being so good that he could climb drunk and show these young uns a thing or two!

And so it is. Life presents many opportunities that will reflect back to you what you desire to see. We enjoy the word hapfull that fits so beautifully in with whom we are and who you are. When it is your time to exit you will exit. When it is your time to fall and injure yourself it is your time. When it is time to fall in love, it is your time.

What we are trying to tell you is that you, dear ones are orchestrating your life on many levels. Our wish is that you become aware of the energies that you use to create. Being joyful attracts more joy. Being appreciative brings more for you to appreciate. You could choose to wear rose-colored glasses and live in your own world. All of you live in a world of your making and frequently the glasses aren’t so rosy.

Yes there are irritants and people who seem to be less than they could be. Perhaps you could be the joyous one who shows them how life can be. Perhaps when you live in your joy you are an invitation for others to live in their joy.

The hapless/hapfull climber was in his own world and the energies of those that surrounded him were those that would have created an accident. They were energies of other climbers who despite individual judgment were in awe of the being choosing to do as he did, climb so well that the young uns would notice that he still had it. You all still have “it” –the indefinable quality of total joy-of love-of light-of energy-of Source. We could try to get Linda to use words for it, but truly words are not big enough, of love enough to express to you the magnificence of your being.

One day you will know, when you choose to exit and join us and you will know that you are not the only one. You are in the company of billions of souls experiencing life on planet earth, having chosen to momentarily forget who you truly are. But the times they are a changing and soon there will be enough of you who remember more and more of who you be that you will awaken the remembering in others.

It will ripple out across the universes and change the very history of the universe and create a grand platform to create even more magic. We can hardly stand it. (smile) Of course we can! We are in utter joy as we watch the great unfolding.

Welcome to your life-to your lives to life on planet earth. You were expected and now what hapfull way will you be today? (There are great peals of laughter with this)

Go forth and be joyous.

And so it is.

Linda and The Group

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Linda Adsetts is a  healer, medium, psychic reader, channeller and writer. She receives channelled guidance and inspiration from The Group, a gathering of spirit who teach that our souls’ path is best expressed when we come from a place of joy. You can read how Linda got started down this fascinating path here and on her website where she shares daily messages from The Group.

Join her each Friday on Bliss Habits for an inspiring take on each of the habits.