Soul Contracts, Gratitude, and Spiritual Elderhood – A Weaving of Threads

On the morning of August 26, 2025, an iron plate fell on my daughter Karen’s head. By grace, it only grazed her nose and she is healing well. My heart filled with gratitude — for her angels, for mine, for the invisible protection that seemed to hover in that moment. I asked myself: was this the fruit of being in alignment with All That Is?

The very next day, I drifted along a canal on a barge, invited by Gloria, a new friend. As she said goodbye, she whispered, “We have more in common than you know.” I could only smile in recognition. In my bones, I knew: there is a soul contract between us. Another invisible thread, gently pulling into view.

These two experiences — one of near-accident, the other of unexpected kinship — reminded me of the theme of our next Lighting From Within circle: Soul Contracts.

From my journey, I’ve come to see soul contracts not as fixed decrees, but as living agreements. They shape our families, friendships, and challenges. They ask us to stretch, to soften, to remember who we are beyond roles and wounds.

And here is where gratitude enters. Gratitude is not only a feeling of thanks for what went well. It is an alignment — a tuning fork that places us in resonance with the greater harmony of All Good. Gratitude turns heavy contracts into gifts, burdens into blessings, misunderstandings into new doorways.

Then comes spiritual elderhood — the season of life I now inhabit. Elderhood does not demand that I solve all the puzzles of the past, but that I hold them with gentleness. It allows me to see soul contracts not as punishments but as teaching stones, polished by time. It allows gratitude to become my daily companion, a reminder that even painful chapters carry hidden coherence.

When I hold these three threads together, a picture emerges:

• Soul contracts are the hidden weaving.

• Gratitude is the golden thread that softens the weaving.

• Elderhood is the loom that allows me to see the pattern with fresh eyes.

My original soul contract, as I have come to understand it, is to walk the path of clarity in service of peace. This is no small task, and I have stumbled many times. Yet every moment of gratitude brings me back to alignment with All That Is, and every act of elder listening fulfills the promise my soul once made.

So tonight, as we gather in circle, I will remember: our role is not to fix, but to witness. Not to break bonds, but to bring them into the Field of love, where transformation becomes possible.

And I ask you, dear reader:

• What invisible agreements are shaping your life?

• How does gratitude shift the way you see them?

• And how might you, too, live your elderhood — no matter your age — as a witness of peace?