Why Reiki why me why now?

I've just finished a meeting with a group of Reiki friends and fellow hospice volunteers, a group I have come to love dearly for their many strengths, their vast inner wisdom, and their diversity of Reiki spirit. I am thankful and honored to be a part of such a group and come home feeling, as always, a renewed sense of 'what I am about, what I am here to do.' Although teaching and writing about many things is a part of the work I am to do, teaching Reiki, sharing Reiki with the people on this planet that get up and breathe and live each day simultaneously with me, is a huge part of that to do list. Oftentimes I get blissfully sidetracked, as it were, by many many other things that make up what we call life; earning a living, giving other kinds of treatments, such as massage or reflexology, teaching yoga (a beautiful thing unto itself), cooking, sleeping, and loving and caring for family and friends. But then someone (my Reiki guides) taps me on the left shoulder (remembering of course that the right brain, our intuitive side controls the left side of the body) and clears their throats as if to say, "remember? this is the work we need to get on with now." Why Reiki? Reiki is a beautiful amazing and perfect gift that promises to surround and embrace us and turn our lives into a thing of beauty if we choose to open the door to it. Reiki I promises to open the door just wide enough so that we can see our glorious self who has been standing in the light all along, just waiting to be noticed. It clears our energy body and clears the path for self healing to begin. As Thich Nhat Hanh says, "When you produce peace and happiness in yourself you begin to realize peace for the whole world."" Peace begins with us. This in and of itself is enough reason to learn Reiki I. Reiki II opens the door wide, acknowledging our openness to healing and giving us symbols to take our Reiki to others both near and far. Now this Reiki light can carry us from place to place no matter where that may be; the past, the future, the other side of the room or the other side of the world. If we are willing to do the work of healing that Reiki II brings we can share joy with so many others. Opportunities will knock for us to send Reiki near and far. People will begin to look for us before we even arrive on the scene. If drawn further to take Reiki III, here lies the missing pieces, the puzzle that now begins to suddenly come together with a life all its own. Discoveries happen, layer upon layer until all one sees is the miracle of Reiki at work in their lives, guiding them, helping their loved ones, healing round every corner and turn. Spreading Reiki to others, both through treatments and classes, lectures and the most casual conversations about it, becomes something one must do. If we allow our intuition to speak to us, there will be no doubt about it...in order to balance Mother Earth and her people, Reiki is needed now, now more than ever before. Why me? Because the more people who learn and practice the peace and love of Reiki the sooner that peace and love will be felt by all of the Universe. Because now is the only time there is. Because now is the time our spiritual evolution, not revolution, is happening. Because now is when you heard this, read this, felt this. Do it now. Standing in Reiki light, Rose