III. From Darkness to Light P 4
4 The way is not hard, but it is very different. Yours is the way of pain, of which God knows nothing. That way is hard indeed, and very lonely. Fear and grief are your guests, and they go with you and abide with you on the way. But the dark journey is not the way of God’s Son. Walk in light and do not see the dark companions, for they are not fit companions for the Son of God, who was created of light and in light. The Great Light always surrounds you and shines out from you. How can you see the dark companions in a light such as this? If you see them, it is only because you are denying the light. But deny them instead, for the light is here and the way is clear.
Journal
Again, Jesus is telling us we can do this. He is telling us that we have all we need, because what we are, is all we need. The light that will guide us and awaken us is in us. It shines out from us. So I ask myself how it is that I manage to see the darkness in all this light. I must be really determined to walk with these dark companions, or rather, the ego part of my mind is determined. “I” am determined to walk in light.
It is this determination that keeps me looking at my thoughts and releasing them to the Holy Spirit. It keeps me from running, and it keeps me from choosing denial over honesty. I believe Jesus when he tells me that I can do this and that the light is already here, already available to me. It makes my heart beat a little faster when I think of that!
Jesus began this paragraph by telling us that this is not difficult, just very different. We have become accustomed to pain, suffering and death. We think that guilt and fear are natural and fully justified. What we refuse to see is that we find justification because we are looking for it. We look for it in the dark and we find it there because we put it there. We are the authors of our sad and fatalistic stories. We write the story, project it outward, and seek to find it. We then pretend we don’t know where it came from, but it definitely proves our point.
Today when my thoughts wander to the darkness, I am going to remember this. I am going to remind myself that I see dark images because I am looking in the dark. I can as easily see the joy and the peace and the love that is God and so is me as well. I can look at the light instead. It is a simple choice. I am going to use my favorite mantras to remind me and help me turn to the light.
The peace of God is everything I want. God does not will this, so it cannot be. God’s Will is my will. Then I will let the Holy Spirit give me whatever thoughts He knows will help me.
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