The most important thing you will ever do is tend to your soul. The quiet whisper within
instructs us of what we need in order to thrive, but we often neglect our inner ally, leaving it unattended and unheard. When we fail to listen, the wealth of wisdom we hold within is left unused, while we continue to muddle our way through the human condition.
The first time I really heard the voice of my soul I ignored it. I didn’t know how to interpret its message and even when I asked those around me about the nudging from within, I was told that it was “just nothing”.
You see, my gut told me something was wrong before I married my husband. The closer the date came, the more uncomfortable I grew with marrying the man I had been with for almost six years. Yes, we had disagreements and as many people say, there were a few things I could’ve taken more seriously when they happened. But nothing screamed “get out” before I felt the stirrings that something was truly amiss. Others said “it’s just cold feet” and encouraged me to dismiss the discomfort as premarital jitters.
On the second day of the honeymoon, I saw what my soul was trying to quietly, but persistently tell me. My new husband’s behavior showed me who he really was, and I was literally left standing waist-deep in the Caribbean ocean, wondering what the hell I had just gotten myself into. It took two years and three couple’s therapists to help me make the final decision to leave. The day I filed the divorce papers was the day I committed to listening to and trusting my soul. I have been dedicated to tending its garden ever since.
Although the marriage might seem like a tragic mistake, I actually credit the situation to discovering my inner ally. I would’ve never known to listen to the voice within had it not proven that it was trying to protect me from a very difficult and confusing two years. During that time, I experienced several more “nudges”, all leading me to confirm that my “ex” couldn’t tell the truth to save his life. As Thackeray said in his quote above, I experienced the “training place for the destinies of eternity”—I
learned the hard way that my future depended on whether or not I listened to the voice within. My destiny included the discovery of how important the soul is to both managing and mastering the human condition.
