Lovely friends,
I’ve been thinking about spiritual purpose lately and how seriously we can take those two words. Say “spiritual mission” and suddenly it sounds like we should all know exactly why we came here, have a five-year plan from Spirit, and probably be doing something very impressive with our lives.
After all these years of doing spiritual work, I really don’t think it usually happens that way.
I think our spiritual mission unfolds throughout our lives. We learn things, go through things, meet people, change direction, discover gifts we didn’t know we had, and find ourselves drawn toward things we never would have imagined years earlier. Little by little, we start recognizing what matters to us and where we have something meaningful to give.
My own spiritual path definitely didn’t arrive with instructions. I didn’t grow up knowing that one day I would be doing intuitive readings, practicing Reiki, teaching people how to work with their own intuition, creating guided meditations, or talking about angels and Spirit for a living. There wasn’t one big moment where somebody handed me my spiritual mission and suddenly everything made sense. It unfolded one piece at a time.
Reiki became part of my life, and I followed it. My intuition became stronger as I learned to trust and work with it. I started doing readings, and one reading led to another until eventually I had worked with thousands of people. I started putting guided meditations on YouTube back in 2007 because it was something I felt called to create, and I certainly couldn’t have known then what that little decision would eventually become.
There have been plenty of turns along the way too. What I do has changed as I’ve changed, and the way I want to use my gifts continues to evolve. There are things that were a huge part of my work at one point that don’t have the same pull for me now, while other parts keep getting stronger. I think that’s important because your spiritual mission doesn’t have to be one job description that Spirit gives you when you’re twenty-five and expects you to follow for the rest of your life.
Looking backward, though, I can see the threads.
Healing has always been one of them. Helping people trust themselves has been another. Intuition, Spirit, angels, energy, meditation, and helping someone find a little more peace or clarity have shown up again and again in different forms. The way I express those things has changed over the years, but the deeper thread underneath them has stayed surprisingly consistent.
That’s one of the reasons I believe so strongly that we can find clues to our spiritual mission by looking at the life we’ve already lived.
- What keeps coming back?
- What have you learned that you naturally want to share?
- What do people seem to come to you for?
- What have you been curious about for years, even when you tried to put it aside?
- And what parts of yourself seem to keep asking for more room?
Those are questions I still ask myself because I don’t believe I’m finished discovering my own path either. I’m 55 years old, and I fully expect Spirit to surprise me again. There may be something I end up doing five years from now that hasn’t even occurred to me yet, and I actually find that exciting.
That is one of the reasons I love working with Archangel Raziel around spiritual purpose.
Raziel has always felt connected to those wonderful moments when something suddenly makes sense. You see the connection between two experiences, understand why an old lesson matters now, or recognize something about yourself that was sitting there all along. I think of him as helping us see the threads running through our lives and understand ourselves on a deeper spiritual level.
Sometimes the clues are already there.
What do people naturally come to you for? What have you always been interested in? What have you survived, learned, studied, practiced, or become really good at? What kind of difference do you enjoy making for another person, and what keeps calling you back even when you wander away from it for a while?
I think there is a lot of information in those answers.
Your spiritual mission also doesn’t have to become your career. Spirituality can make everything sound like it needs to become a business, a ministry, a YouTube channel, or some giant public contribution. You can live your purpose in the way you raise a child, care for animals, create things, support your friends, solve problems at work, make people laugh, teach, listen, build, heal, protect, encourage, or bring kindness into the places you go.
There are a million ways to be useful in this world, and your way may change throughout your life.
Something can be incredibly important for one chapter and eventually feel complete. Another interest starts pulling at you, and you begin wondering why you keep thinking about it. I’ve learned to pay attention when that happens because curiosity can be one of the ways Spirit gets our attention.
This is where I think Archangel Michael and Archangel Raziel work beautifully together.
Michael has been part of my spiritual practice for a very long time, and I usually feel his energy around courage, protection, strength, boundaries, truth, and forward movement. When I am questioning myself or nervous about taking a step, Michael is one of the first angels I call in. His energy helps me come back to my own strength and remember that I am capable of making a decision and seeing where it takes me.
Raziel brings another layer. I can ask him to help me understand what I’m seeing, recognize patterns I may have missed, and become more aware of my own intuition. Sometimes I need courage to take the step, and sometimes I need enough quiet inside myself to recognize which step keeps getting my attention.
I think we underestimate how much we already know about ourselves.
We’ve spent years gathering information through actual experience. We know what makes us curious, what drains us, what lights us up, what we’re good at, what we care about, and what kinds of problems we naturally want to solve. We have experiences we never would have chosen that taught us things we couldn’t have learned any other way.
There can be clues to purpose scattered through all of it.
Sometimes we know what we want to explore and fear immediately starts giving us twenty-seven reasons we shouldn’t do it. We wonder whether we’re qualified enough, whether anyone will care, whether we’re too old to start, whether we waited too long, whether people will judge us, or whether we imagined the whole calling in the first place.
I’ve certainly had those conversations with myself.
That is when I ask Michael to help me with the courage part. Help me clear away some of the fear so I can look at the idea clearly. Help me stop worrying so much about how everything will turn out and become willing to take one step.
Then I might ask Raziel, “What am I overlooking here?”
I love that question.
Maybe there is a gift you have underestimated because it comes easily to you. Maybe an experience you thought was completely unrelated has actually prepared you for something you are considering now. Maybe you keep coming back to the same subject, idea, or type of work and have never really stopped to ask yourself why.
You don’t have to force an answer. Give yourself a little room and pay attention to what comes up. An answer may come through an intuitive feeling, a memory, an idea, a conversation, a dream, something you read, or one of those little aha moments when you suddenly see something differently.
Sometimes understanding comes immediately, and sometimes you ask the question and realize a week later that the answer has been quietly forming in the background. I think purpose can work like that too. We can put so much pressure on ourselves to discover our “mission” that we miss the little piece of it sitting directly in front of us.
Maybe there is simply something you are meant to explore next.
Take the class. Research the idea. Practice the gift. Write something, create something, reach out to someone, or try the thing you’ve been thinking about and see how you feel afterward.
There is so much freedom in allowing yourself to explore without deciding that every interesting thing has to become your forever path. That has become more important to me as I’ve gotten older because I’ve lived enough life to know I’m going to keep changing. Hopefully I will still be learning things, discovering things, changing my mind, and getting excited about new ideas for a very long time.
So when I think about a spiritual mission now, I think a lot about alignment. Am I using what I have learned? Am I listening to myself? Am I doing things that feel meaningful to me? Am I willing to follow the little nudges when Spirit puts something interesting in front of me?
And am I willing to believe there is still more for me to discover?
I really like that last question.
There are parts of your purpose you may already be living beautifully, and there may be parts you haven’t even met yet. There are things you don’t know how to do yet, people you haven’t met, opportunities you can’t see from where you are standing, and experiences that may completely change what you think you want.
You don’t have to figure all of that out today.
If you feel like something new is calling you, ask Michael and Raziel to walk with you. Ask Michael to help you find the courage to explore it. Ask Raziel to help you recognize the wisdom, gifts, patterns, and intuitive clues that may already be showing you where to look.
Then ask Spirit one simple question.
What would you have me explore next?
Give yourself some room to receive the answer, and when something keeps getting your attention, take one little step toward it.
Your spiritual mission may already be showing up in the life you’re living.
You may simply be ready to see the next piece of it. 💜
Much love,
Lisa 💜
