Spiritual Journey of Rustic Steps
Rustic Steps. Forest canopy. Looks like portal to frontier adventure.
Proceed at your own spirit of adventure.
After recent biz meeting in Charlevoix, I explored her Lake Michigan shoreline. A Brugman trait gene I inherited from my father, who took our family on cross country camping adventures.
Two weeks. Every summer from 1973-1981. On the road. Mom, Dad, and three kids in a Ford Econoline van toting a 1967 Apache pop-up camper. 3 burner Coleman stove. 5 gallon water jug. 2 Coleman ice chests. And 1 CB radio for Smokey sightings and road reports.
Most of the time we stuck to Dad’s planned road trip itinerary and AAA maps. But sometimes, Mom would find an off-road adventure nugget in AAA travel guide, or we would discover an enticing roadside sign re-orienting us on an off-road adventure.
So of course, a sign like this stokes familiar chord of going off course as a kid. Whether it was on family camping trips, or exploring ravine behind childhood home.
Today, signs like this remind me to re-mind my choices and actions. Mental adventures on subtle pathways-my nervous system. Rerouting mind to explore new career and creative trails, trusting navigating change and unknowns is both practice and spiritual pathway.
Rustic Steps invite me to reorient, and explore off-road adventures. Examples: choosing to live in Petoskey last summer. Moving to CALI in 2011. Leaving corporate world for Nashville in 2000.
22 years taking rustic steps based on where my heart pinged. Both proceeding at my own risk AND taking leaps of faith, while hollering “Yeehaw and Giddy Up”. Trusting blazed roads. And, spiritually bushwhacking new paths.
Off road adventures most always ping on giddy-up good times.
All opportunities to spiritually bushwhack life. To trust your heart- the Soul’s compass. And, follow the Divine Blueprint.
What rustic step are you going to take today? Giddy up and yeehaw! No ifs, and, or ‘butts’ about it.
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