Being an Ambassador of Love and Peace

I've always been interested in coincidences. The big questions about how God/the divine/ the universe/higher good might be active in my life. When topics or ideas keep poking me or nudging me along, I eventually take time to pay attention and listen.  What's been poking me lately? I keep hearing words about just doing the next thing, the question: what is mine to do, or what's my purpose in life? Do I have a divine appointment here on earth?

This winter I received a note from one of my yoga students. Let me just pause there and say how blessed and lucky I feel to teach and be in community with so many amazing yoga students who let me know if they'll be absent from class (even though I have never made this request), and who send me cards and notes and the occasional encouraging email. Anyway, I received this note that ended with "keep on being an ambassador of love and peace." What the??? Who me? Being an ambassador of anything sounds lofty and terribly important and I'm not sure that's me! Yet, the words wouldn't let me go. How could I try to be an ambassador of love and peace? How could I step into this and try to live it out? As is so true of any endeavor, you just begin to try.

If you think I'm this highly evolved spiritual being, who emanates peace and tranquility, you don't know me. I am a fiery redhead with a temper and a high need to control (my husband knows this very well!). Yet I'm trying. To be more peaceful. To try to see those who upset me with more compassion and understanding. When the world feels like too much, I remember to just do the next thing. To do my job as a yoga instructor and let forces larger than me be in my words and actions. Then it hit me. This is not my job to do alone! I can be an instigator! I can offer the ideas and asanas in yoga practice that build a sense of feeling grounded, balanced, and connected. All of my yoga students can take these ideas and skills and use them in their lives....doing the next right thing. It feels big, really scary, exciting, and even revolutionary. It's a calling. I'm finding my way. Wanna join me as an ambassador of love and peace?