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Life on this Earth has often been compared to a school. Before we are born, our soul signs up for a course of study. We choose what we want to learn in this lifetime and choose our first teachers––our parents and family. Then, as we proceed through our life, we are given opportunities to learn. We get lessons and review lessons, we get tests and review tests. Just as in school, the tests usually cover what we have just been learning, often calling on us to remember past lessons to add to what we are learning now. Once we learn a lesson, we move on to new lessons or sometimes another version of the same lesson! This is a very strict school. If we refuse to learn our lessons, they don’t go away, they get even more complicated and intense.

How do we know when we have learned a lesson? Sometimes we don’t know until much later how much we have learned. Sometimes the test comes first, then the lesson! The final test is how well we integrate it into our lives. In other words, do we live it? Does it go past words and concepts into actions and behavior?

Sometimes, instead of working at our lessons, we choose to involve ourselves with other people’s lessons. Of course, we don’t think of it that way! We are just trying to help. But since everything we experience is part of our own lesson, that can be a lesson, too. Sometimes we learn not to help so much! Remember the rule: “Never put more energy into someone else’s problem, than they are putting in themselves.” Part of what we need to learn, is that they are capable of learning their own lessons in their own way.

This doesn’t mean we can’t help other people, not at all. We help them best when we put into practice what we have learned. If we are working on a particular lesson, we will very often find ourselves involved with others working on the same lesson on the same or different levels. As we share our knowledge with each other, we all add to what we know.

The Universe gives us two choices about learning our lessons. The easy way or the hard way. The choice is entirely ours. Most of us already know the hard way. The easy way begins when we become willing to learn our lessons the easy way! This takes attention, rather than effort...awareness, rather than struggle. We pay attention to the life around us and eagerly look to see what we can learn from each situation. We are allowed to learn from others’ experiences. We are allowed to learn our lessons quickly, by showing that we can live them.

So, with all this talk of school and lessons, what is it that we are supposed to be learning? This is the fun part, get ready!

We are sparks of the Divine essence. All of us. We are not all that God is, but God is everything that we are. All of us. This life of lessons serves only one purpose––to remind us of Who we truly are: A Divine Spiritual Being. In Truth, we are not here to learn, but to Remember...

When we remember Who we are, and begin to live our lives as a Divine Spiritual Being, suddenly our “lessons” change. We are guided into our spiritual path and our “lessons” become joyous. We fly through our “tests” because we already know the answers, and we know that we know... We remember the answers, because we remember Who we are.

© 2002 Donna Metcalfe

DONNA METCALFE is the owner of Good Scents, a metaphysical bookstore in Redlands, CA. Her book: Collected Works: a book for the Eclectic Spirit, a collection of her essays is now available at Good Scents and other fine bookstores!

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