If you want to fall all over your self with sheer glee then I recommend that you get yourself to Joseph Caldwell’s book, The Pig Did It, post haste.  It stirred the handful of remaining drops of Irish blood left in my veins.  Called by one reviewer, a shaggy pig story,  the book is a free-for-all from start to finish.

As I learned in my youth, there is nothing so intimate as an insult and by that measure the protagonist  is one loveable guy.  Luckily for us this is the start of a trilogy.  I truly wonder what it must be like to be as talented as Caldwell.  Have I whetted your appetite?  Then get to it!

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LOA and a Job

When I think back over the many instances of the use of the LOA in my life I feel a swell of gratitude.  Sure my life would have continued on and no doubt there would have been many things to be grateful for even if I had not been consciously creating.  But when I reflect on the confusion that often enveloped my daily efforts, perhaps my thoughts were too absorbed in a spectrum of dull happiness to outright misery to allow real gratitude.

In my early adulthood I usually found jobs easily and I also found some satisfaction in those jobs.  But there was also a sense that I was under-utilizing my gifts and that I was underpaid.  My reasons for taking more fulfilling jobs involved family responsibility and also a sense that I was either not up for the rough and tumble of the game, or that I wanted to have physical and mental energy available after work to have a life.  I didn’t really consider that employment could be a source of enjoyment and fulfillment because I was busy being someone’s wife and two other somebodies’ mother.  I think that anyone who does it all well is a superheo.

But at the time when this story unfolds I was living in a new place where I hardly knew any one, having the summer to come up with a job back at my home.   I was living with a friend in a remote area and doing childcare.  During the times that I wasn’t working I was often alone in a place which would have been a paradise if not for the mosquitoes and other biting insects.  We were off the grid, so there was no TV,  phone, radio etc.  I got to spend some time with the inside of my head.  While picking berries, watching beavers and dragonflies, I began to put into practice some of the Law of Attraction teachings I had encountered in N.C.  One of them is to daydream about the thing you want in your life.

I didn’t know what kind of job I wanted so I let the daydream tell me.  After many false starts, I found myself roaming the stacks of my local library.  From then on it was easy to fantasize.  I didn’t go into daydream with a plan to focus on the library.  Rather, I let myself go to a place that I loved and did what seemed natural and pleasurable to do.  This I did off and on throughout the summer.

When I returned home, I went directly to the library, with every assurance that I would get a job.  The woman I talked to said there was no job, didn’t ask me to leave a resume’ and implied that I was impudent for even asking.  I didn’t let that faze me.  I went from there to the local bookstore and easily got that job.  Oh well, I thought, it comes when it comes.  A few months later, a woman who worked at both places recommended me for a job at that library without my knowing it.  She then told me and said it was mine if I wanted it.  I got my foot in the door working a few hours a week and eventually acquired a benefited position.

The things I learned from this experience were as follows.  It is good to revisit practices from the past that have worked a little for they might work even better with additional focus and repetition.  I learned that my own imagination will give me the raw material I need for my dreams if I playfully allow it.  Also, it takes as long as it takes and the LOA has methods that I know not of.  I learned not to get discouraged if it looks as if I will have to settle for less.  Often these early, lesser manifestations are only precursors of the real thing and actually herald its arrival.

The job at the bookstore actually helped me get a footing in a community that is broad and deep in its human riches.  The connections I made there have helped me over the years.  At the time that I was creating a job I didn’t know that I was going to become a local citizen (12 years and counting.) The library is more mainstream and I might have been unaware of the spiritual community without working at a New Age bookstore before I came there.

I would have been uncomfortable with the LOA if I hadn’t been able to see its broader implications, for I know that life is much more than we know here on the physical plane.  I believe I’ve been blessed with a variety of friends and experiences in my various jobs that have kept me both grounded and inspired.

I’m thankful to Jose for his feedback. It’s nice to have when you’re new to this, to keep you motivated. I’m already 3 books behind on my revues(sic). If I don’t get around to it, check out the book, Truck: a love story by Michael Perry. Wonderful, if you happen to be a sensitive-type who happens to love old trucks (with a deep purple passion).