Is it possible for "spiritual" opportunities to be missed, or...?

There are no mistakes, only lessons. Guilt and sinfulness, diseases of the ego, hold thoughts of being too late. But Spirit knows no time. Experiences are always interpreted. it depends on whether the teacher/learner or the sinner does the interpreting of the meaning. Idy4's message demonstrates that opportunities abound with love and retract with fear.

Many years ago, I was driving down the my street towards home. I glanced over and saw three young women at a phone booth. I noticed that their car had out of state plates. I felt compelled to turn around and go back to see if they needed directions or anything. These three beautiful, young girls...all about 17-19 yrs old, were visiting our city from canada. They had driven down to see the Pope, who was planning to be at a national Catholic youth conference. They had been phoning one of the girl's mother to see if she knew someone in our city who could help them with a place to crash for a few days. I was just minutes away from the stadium where the event was. I also had a spare, empty bedroom with three beds. So, I offered to give them lodgings. What a blessing the entire experience was for everyone! They were such wonderful girls, on fire for Christ! They were grateful for my help and I was blessed by doing so! Some would say that this was risky, because you never know about folks. But, I have found that in every instance where I was Spirit led to reach out to a stranger, I was blessed in return. Sometimes, we have to follow HIS lead in our lives. I have never regreted doing so and I hope to continue to be a blessing to others each and every day. I hope you will listen to His voice and follow His lead as well. Shalom, R

We have missed opportunities many, many times over eons. That's precisely why we are back in class. What we intellectually know as time is speeding up. The particular universe we are in, is expanding at a greatly accelerated rate. We Must take full advantage of the many opportunities, while we are still in class. We Must not waste even a second, while in class. Missed opportunities should be avoided. * - Should we not get a firm grasp on our "True Obligation, and Duty"? "Peace be always with you."

Every instant of every day is a new opportunity for growth. If we believe that everything happens for a reason, then it has to be straight across the board - no exceptions. So if we "missed" an opportunity, clearly we were not ready for that experience. Also, many times I've contemplated the issue of regret. But, if I like who I am today (and I think I'm a pretty decent person) I can't regret my past because if I had done things differently, I may be a different person today (perhaps not so decent). Each experience shapes our reality and therefore has value... A great poet once wrote: "There's no such thing as a wasted tear and no such thing as a wasted year each experience has it's worth no matter how it may appear." PS: I like Silver's answer, although I wouldn't call it "mercy" I'd call it "persistence" lol!!! The God force loves us and wants us to learn - so chances will just keep coming as long as our hearts are open. :-D

You have just defined the mercy of God's Spirit. It just keeps coming.

It is true. I do not know how many ideal opportunities, we could have missed. We ourselves cannot recount. Whenever God knocks at our door (mind), he may do so in the name and form of different identities. When we fail to miss the chance of recognizing, such things happen. I think you have reached your proper destination of understanding. It is your politeness. Even though we are aware about the reality, yet to retain that full awareness permanently is becoming difficult because of the onslaughts, stresses and strains, pulls and pressures of life.

From what I can tell, we really do get lots of changes to change our minds about things and to form new viewpoints and beliefs about our lives. If we do screw up, it's really helpful to forgive ourselves, forgive other people and, hopefully, we will do better in the future. Best wishes!

When rain falls on a hillside it starts a process which will eventually bring each drop back to the sea. The routes they take may be relatively easy or difficult, but eventually evey one will return to the bright, shining ocean. When Spirit embodies it starts a process which will eventually return each being to the Source. There is no other possible destination - eventually - but the bright, shining Origin of All.

I think the answer is both yes and no, for although time is cyclical and similar *energies* or opportunities do recur continually, in specific cases great spiritual opportunities can be missed..I believe my own story demonstrates this.. For many years I worked as a loner, comfortable with my life, happy and aware of Spirit, teaching and healing, which I feel I have returned to Earth to do at this time of immense change.. Then, in 1991, when visiting a patient in hospital, I looked across at one of the other two ladies in the room and heard myself say, *Ive been waiting for you for a very long time*!..She was shocked and so was I!..It was said THROUGH me not from me!..I simply KNEW this person, and it turned out to be a Soulmate with whom I have shared many lifetimes..She was a trance medium, something she didnt realize until weeks later when I was visiting her home, and at 2am one morning, she awoke in her own room to hear a *voice* say to her, *Please write what we tell you*..She responded, *I cant write* (for she had a kind of Parkinson type condition which caused her hand to shake violently at times, AND she was ultra stubborn!)..Apparently, the tooing and froing continued for some time *Write*, *Cant write* etc etc etc..Then she *fell asleep*, and when she awoke there was a sheet of paper in front of her on which she had written some beautiful text, the first lines of which were: I AM A SPIRITUAL BEING IN A PHYSICAL BODY I HOPE TO TRAVEL THE PATHWAY THAT IS RIGHT FOR ME I AM A BEING OF LIGHT AND LOVE I WOULD NOT BE EVOLVING IF I HAD CHOSEN AN EASIER PATH I WILL NOT GRUMBLE ABOUT MY JOURNEY ALTHOUGH AT TIMES I MAY BE WEAK I WILL FACE EVERY DAY WITH JOY AND LOVE AND THE LOVE OF LIFE, FOR I AM SPECIAL I WILL WORK ONLY FOR MY FATHER WHO LOVES HIS CHILDREN AND GUIDES THEM WHEN THEY OPEN THEIR EYES TO SEE, AND THEN CONTENTMENT AND THE REASON FOR THEIR BEING WILL BE REVEALED I AM NOT AFRAID..I AM IN MY FATHER*S HANDS AND MY FATHER IS LOVE HE WILL WALK WITH ME VERY DAY OF MY LIFE hE IS MY FRIEND, PROTECTOR AND GUIDES ME ALWAYS THANK YOU BLESSED FATHER.. which was fascinating because she had zero self esteem and LOATHED HERSELF, which had already caused and continued increasingly to cause pain and illness in her body as time went by, even though her ability to channel (via writing and trance) from the highest levels became clear..The messages came through nightly confirming that we had planned to meet before coming to Earth, and when we did so we would stay together and, both of us using our own particular spiritual *gifts*, do the work we had come to do in preparation for the *changes* to come (2012 etc) Well, initially, we got on famously, travelled together, had fun and each night were meeting new and known spiritual contacts..I asked one if we could meet with the Starpeople, and 10 days later, three non human Pleiadians teleported physically into our room and communicated with us by writing through my ex!.. As time went by however she became more and more fearful and less and less loving, consequently creating more and more physical pain and illness in her body..Although we married, described from spirit as *a marriage made in Heaven*, it turned out to be hell on Earth as she went rapidly downhill, eventually losing her *gifts* and dumping me just a few months after we married..Then, over the next several years at regular intervals, I would get a phonecall, often via someone else saying she needed help from me, so I went, time and time again, seeing her still going downhill which was heartbreaking.. Eventually, I finally had to step back completely or else disappear down into the same hole she was digging for herself, and I KNEW I had MUCH more work still to do for Spirit..That triggered a heart attack within me and shattered my world.. So I see that *story* very much as a planned spiritual opportunity which was *missed* due to someone*s freewill, in spite of our having spent many previous lifetimes together..It took me several years to get over it, which I feel now I probably have, but there are still some physical symptoms within me that werent there before we met.. I learned a lot about us all having freewill from that *adventure* and would now be very wary of sharing my space with someone else, sadly..