#99* The Aquarium

For Christmas I received a Roku box that plugs into my TV, allowing me to receive a wide variety of channels, such as Netflix, YouTube, and several others, should I choose to subscribe.



My Roku screen shows a very life-like aquarium with several different fish swimming back and forth within the confines of the tank. While watching this scene I couldn’t help but see a comparison to my own life’s spiritual journey.

I was born and raised in a particular Christian religion which I continued to practice into my mid 40’s. I was content for many years to swim along with the other “fish of the aquarium” so to speak. But then during mid-life, or mid-stream, as I like to think of it, something changed. I felt that there had to be greater spiritual fulfillment and deeper awakening outside the confines of the tank. This coming from the restrictions of my religion I had been following for so many years felt for me, with its structure, doctrines, rules and regulations.

While following that religion served my spiritual needs for many years, as it lent a sense of security, community, guidance, and identity, I also found it quite confining when it came to my spiritual growth and journey towards awakening. I also began to feel disconnected and detached from these religious practices, which led me on a quest for something else, something deeper that would give me a sense of greater spiritual fulfillment and inner peace.

So I began reading a plethora of books on spiritual awakening and enlightenment, along with attending several seminars on these same topics, led by various authors and spiritual gurus. Before I knew it, I began re-evaluating my former religious core beliefs. I no longer felt as though I was living through the dark night of the soul. As I was led to begin practicing daily meditation, mindfulness , yoga, and journaling , I began to sense greater feelings of inner peace, joy, and contentment. Plus, I was experiencing increased synchronicities, heightened intuition, increased empathy, and sensitivity. And so it happened that I chose to become spiritual, but not religious.

As I continued to flourish in my newly-found spiritual freedom, I became aware that I was no less divine than a cup of ocean water is any less the ocean than the entire ocean. That I was not only composed of human DNA from my parents, but more importantly, I also had Divine DNA from my Source Energy. I was a spiritual being having a human experience, or as I like to think of myself, as a Godling in training.

And so as we begin this brand-new year of 2026, I shall not fear whatever changes it may bring either wanted or unwanted. For as the Serenity Prayer teaches us, if we can accept the things we cannot change, and have the courage to change those we can, we will be granted the wisdom to discern the difference… and therein lies the path to our awakening.

* Written and submitted by my longtime very dear friend and supporter, Nancy Pearson from Rochester, NY. It has been my honor and privilege to have been witness to her spiritual transformation over many years. She is in the true sense of the word, a soulmate, part of my soul family.