Find the Light in the Darkness
Something dark–even if it’s a chance event or one that generally wouldn’t serve you well– nearer or further from the present situation we’re facing can serve as a valuable place to bring the Light. Even in times of total darkness, the Light can shine, referred to by Jesus as “the Kingdom of Heaven,” or the “Sun of Righteousness,” or the “Light of the World.”
And where the Light of the World shines most brightly, there is usually also the atmosphere of hope. Hope has nothing to do with delusion. Instead, it’s the occurrence of fulfillment, of the thing, we most desired becoming actualized.
Perhaps you’ve met a person recently who has–like many of us in the world around us–become burdened by struggle. Maybe it’s a young person struggling to pay rent or buy food, or it could be as simple as the person who’s been laid off from work they cannot seem to afford.
As Mother Teresa once said, “The poverty of spirit is more terrifying than the poverty of poverty.”
The state of living in spiritual darkness affects our heartfelt sense of hope. Not only do many of us lack the awareness and energy to attempt to bring into manifestation the ideal situations and circumstances that we envision as possible, but when we do try, we bring failure to the table.
It’s as though when we create the exception, we create the superhuman. The truth is that when people think about the extreme right conditions; it puts them in the realms of possibility and faith. But all of us, when we step back from our own experiences and consider the millions of positive things that take place in the world every day, simply pose this question: “What is there to lose?”
Continuing to just consider the unbelievable and extraordinary means by which the greatest Scientific discoveries and greatest Gift of all time are realized as well as the means by which individual human beings are destined to be freed from their besetting bondages, always causes–as a paradox–death to any other thoughts as to whether or not we should be empathetic.
For it’s in the arms race between science and spirituality that we all get lost. When we discard the religious baggage of sin as though it didn’t exist and replace it with the scientific concepts of a mind-boggling assemblage of atoms and molecules so strange that the human mind cannot explain it, what have we really accomplished?–except to change the way we think.
When the heart is filled with hope, the mind becomes sector in disguise–a sweet savor mingles of salts and sugars with which mouths the true answer to all our questions. It’s in the midst of problems, or rather, what we call problems, the search for a new way of perceiving ourselves and the universe–a new paradigm–that a new world is awakened. In the process, the old world passes away, and a new world arises; it’s a garden, a new Earth.
Has fate or karma played a role in how you live your life? If so, great heavens to you on that; you’re in the flow of things, and you’re certainly on track.
If you antagonize others and say and do negative things, you probably do because you sense some sort of hidden motive. You presumably perceive the world as a mirror reflecting back your own thoughts–a cruel and uncaring reality.
Do you?… do you really?…
