Seeing Your Mission as a Vehicle for Soul Evolution

We go into these missions thinking that they're all about serving others or the world, when in reality they're intended to serve us.

Maybe not at the level of our outer consciousness, but at the level of the soul, it becomes a convenient vehicle to focus the attention toward a desired act or expression. In short, it is a carrot dangled before us to lead us onward, and along the path situations will be created for us to address the things within us that are keeping the soul stuck in its status quo.

Just like we have a status quo here on earth that reflects the state of mass consciousness, the soul has its own status quo as well -- the state of its evolvement and ability to carry on its expansionary journey.

That state often gets stuck, or as some call it, the soul gets "sick," through patterns and choices that we might fall into over the course of several lives. While we may come back to revisit certain issues, the weight of life's dramas can make us fall prey to the same choices, thoughts and behaviors that we made in earlier lives. Instead of evolving through new experiences and expressions, we fall prey to the old ones. Essentially, our souls become "stuck in a rut" that they find hard to escape.

The mission is an especially effective means to focus our attention on the issues at hand, because it often comes with an intense desire to accomplish the mission and achieve the desired result. However, that intensity often results less from the direction of the inner voice or pull of the soul than from self-judgments, false images and misunderstandings that we've picked up along the way, and try to use the mission to prop up our self-images and "prove" to ourselves (and perhaps to God) that we are evolving, effective, capable creators that deserve his love.

We delude ourselves into thinking our missions are essential for the well-being of others or advancement of the collective consciousness. Certainly they can add to that. But essential? Hardly! For if we don't do it, don't you think that somewhere along the line someone else will? Why would the manifestation of the Divine Plan hinge upon the success or failure of a single soul (except, perhaps, in the rare case of Jesus, Buddha or other masters sent to change the course of human history)?

On an energetic level, such a sense of inflated importance reflects unresolved issues of self-worth and a resulting energetic imbalance that the soul has not yet addressed.

Rather, the mission is a form of self-chosen expression, guided from within for the opportunity it offers to bring needed experiences. And those experiences will come through pursuing the path, which is why it is so hard to abandon a mission choice -- the soul seizes the chance, and despite the ego's cry for relief, it will press onward to do what it must do to continue on its evolutionary way.

So if you are finding yourself on a mission that is not going where you want it to go, or unfolding in the way you had hoped, perhaps rather than searching for outer solutions you first look for inner causes and ways to address them that better allow you to move forward on your own spiritual path.

Stop. Look. Listen. You may be surprised at what you find.