Darkness
Usually this blog is about light: love, levity, positivity, good feelings, breaths of fresh air.
Things are shifting, though, and the angels keep bringing messages of darkness. Darkness is the expression of God, or Source Energy, at a lower tone. Light is the expression at a higher frequency. The darkness is not bad. Light is not good. These are qualifiers we have put on them, and both are necessary, and when we get too focused on one, we are out of balance.
One of the best descriptions of life I’ve heard is to imagine Earth as a giant warehouse with no electricity, and therefore no light. Each of us has our own flashlight to navigate through the warehouse. Some of us are tall and some short, but none tall enough to see above the shelves. Some of us have big and bright flashlights, and some have smaller or dimmer flashlights, but nobody has the breaker switch to illuminate the entire warehouse. We can share with one another what our light illuminates, but each of us has our own perspective. Those who only see the bottom shelves don’t necessarily have the vocabulary or experiences to understand what those who only see the top shelves are seeing, so some people take others at their word, and others don’t believe anything they haven’t experienced for themselves. People have created maps, books, art, and TED Talks about their unique perspective, but the truth is: NOBODY knows the whole truth.
We tend to believe that whatever our flashlight has illuminated for us is truth.
Socrates is credited as saying, “The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.”
Socrates must’ve realized everyone’s flashlight is illuminating a different reality, but no one on earth is capable of zooming out far enough with a big enough flashlight to truly get an accurate picture. We are all fumbling around in the dark here. At the basest level, it’s what we all have in common.
It seems like we have a lot of dark stuff going on. The other night/morning I had a nightmare and spent the next three hours going through everyone I know and the stuff they’re going through. I literally do not have a single family member or friend on this earth who isn’t facing some major obstacles right now. My family is NOT small, nor is my friend group.
Today, one of the 13 priests who was on the altar at my dad’s funeral in 1984 passed away after a long and arduous battle with cancer. The thing that struck me about both my dad and Fr. Jay was that they both made sure to focus on every bit of joy, love, goodness, and hope even on their hardest and most pain-filled days. They could have had a massive pity party about all they wanted to accomplish in their lifetimes that cancer was robbing from them. Instead, they focused on love and uplifting those around them.
In all likelihood, neither you, nor I will be passing on soon, but the 100% fact is: we will be one day.
There is a lot of chaos, confusion, and light illuminating some of the darkest places on our planet right now. We have a choice – individually, and collectively: we can imagine that all of this turmoil is necessary for getting us on track towards peace, harmony, love, fresh food and clean water in everyone’s bellies and work together to make it happen beginning in our own communities, OR we can take care of #1, assuming a doomed existence for everyone and our planet, not worrying about the mayhem because there’s no way we can fix this.
Pour out thy Healing Angels, thy heavenly hosts, upon this planet and the people I love. Let them feel the light of your healing hands and let thy healing begin whatever way God grants it. Amen.
I choose hope. I choose unity. I choose community. I hope you’ll join me in saying this prayer each day.
