The smallest snail builds it house as a spiral, the shell turning ever so slowly around and around until the snails little abode is complete.  If you take the time to examine it closely you will discover an exceedingly rare piece of beauty.

Lives are like spirals twisting, twisting, twisting and it is not until they have repeated the pattern a number of times before we notice there are patterns. There are often moments of déjà vu along the way- haven’t I been here before?  Most often we just cry out –why is this happening to me again?? Or why does this keep happening to me? Spirals in life can go up or down, spiraling down into destruction or up into happiness and joy. Our thinking sets the direction in which we go. Negativity draws up further down, positivity draws us up.  We have a choice to focus upward or downward, focusing up shapes our beauty too.  Mostly, we many never notice that our lives are like the spiral, increasing incrementally in the same direction. Just as a pearl is created from a grain of sand, we are being created from the irritations in our life- the irritations are sanding us smooth and each turn of the spiral add a depth to our being that wasn’t there before.

Draw the spiral of your life. What does the picture tell you? Which direction are you travelling?

Is it where you want to go?