Trust Patience Surrender: Moments of Illumination and Grace
Trust, Patience, Surrender-- Moments of Illumination and Grace is a thrilling account of the miracles of everyday life. Author and spiritual teacher Kevin Westrich shares his joys, sorrows, fears, and uncertainties as he travels from Chicago to Sedona to California, to his ancestral home in Germany and diverse French locales including glittery Saint-Tropez and sacred Lourdes, and finally back the U.S. where he makes life-altering decisions. Readers will appreciate the author’s observations about life’s synchronicities and the nature of past-life remembrances. Through such chapters as “The Dark Night of My Soul” and “Illumination (In the Light),” readers will also gain insights into how to navigate the complexities of modern existence and find happiness through choosing the right home, career, and spiritual path. If you have an open mind, the beauty of the book is that it can be anything. It can be a word, a feeling that is generated or it could be a phrase that you read in the book, and possibly it could simply be the full story. The book has a character arch that takes you deeper into the experiences. It was also written in a way, so you could simply pick up the book and read any chapter and it allows you to extract some new insights, tantalizing you to extract pieces of wisdom. The beauty is that it opens your mind to look at life in a different way. We rarely allow ourselves the luxury to step outside our so called box. As you read these stories you may begin to question your own life, thus putting you on a new more soulful life trajectory. It doesn't have to be a profound experience. It doesn't even have to be a powerful moment of grace that you have read about in the book. It's really about stepping into something that is new, something that opens your mind and particularly your heart and then you are led from there. You may ask “How does one engage with, invite, move into moments of illumination and grace?” It's really easy actually. Most of us are taught the old puritan way that you have to suffer in order to receive grace or wonderful things in your life. It's really just the opposite. When someone allows themselves to let go of what they’ve been conditioned to believe, it is in that moment they open the door to moments of illumination and grace. It’s not because of what we've done or what we do, it's simply that we've opened our heart for the possibility that it will happen. The other important thing about moments of illumination and grace is that we don’t have to earn them. They both come on their own accord. Many people don’t allow such experiences because they don’t believe they are worthy. There are specific steps that you might take on a particular day. That could perhaps be setting an intention or some preprogramming, inner programming. At the end of the day, you could practice reflection or retrospection to help you learn these lessons from, trust, patience and surrender! Keep in mind that we're human beings, not human doers because as human beings then we allow things to happen and we enter into it. At the end of each day create a gratitude list. That works even if there is only one thing that you are grateful for that day. Perhaps someone smiled at you, or looked at you, and said something that was nice, or you received something as a gift and it may be very small and nominal, but at the end of the day sit back and reflect over the day. There might have been 10 things that just challenged you and frustrated you but there were that one or two things that you reviewed from that day that cause you to say "Wow, that was really quite beautiful." Practicing these exercises as you read the author’s journeys, you too will experience meaningful “moments of illumination and grace” and begin to enjoy life as an inspiring “center of soulful guidance.”