The challenges that we face on our Soul’s journey as we traverse planet Earth are chosen to increase awareness of self and the impediments erected by the mind (via ego) that interfere with acceptance of our life’s mission and our trust in the wisdom and benevolence of Source. We sometimes require human experiences that push us, testing our faith in our connection to the bird’s-eye view of Soul and the interconnectedness of all of us extant on this beautiful planet. What appears to be an impasse in our journey, often viewed with frustration and fear, is actually a gift of either redirection or the extra time necessary to revise our plan, during which we can acquire the information or knowledge needed to move ahead—not only in the direction of flow, but with the timing and ease that bring greater opportunities to experience thankfulness and joy. Gratitude acknowledged and expressed in any moment of our journey is one of the most effortless ways of accessing whatever is required to swim in the flow of life.
Observance of thought as it comes and goes—especially those thoughts that intrude on serenity and constantly repeat, insisting that we make a judgment on self and/or on others—provides an opportunity to break patterns of resistance. The recognition of learned false beliefs (that we have continued to accept as true and necessary at the insistence of ego) supplies us with the…ammunition needed to conquer fear, which is the enemy of Light and a self-imposed barrier to our own inner strength. The power that we’ve come to believe is outside of us lies within, alongside the enemy with whom we battle. Since we perceive what lies within as existing apart from ourselves, what we then experience in the outside world as reality is merely the shadow cast by a self-built wall to keep out what we’ve already allowed to penetrate the mind. Watching these shadowboxing scenes of discord and strife is ego’s way of distancing self-delusion in order to gain control. When we allow ego to run roughshod over love-based perceptions of Soul, we step out of the Light of Truth and live in a shadowland built on fear and an illusion of disconnection from Source. We are eternally at one with All That Is; any perceived separation can be dissolved by the Light of Love and re-attunement to the Truth and power residing within.
Our willingness as human beings to shine a light on the fear that we project on the other (using our day-to-day life situations as a movie screen) is the ultimate act of courage. Until we face the shadows of our internal mind-world, we are ever caught in a web of illusion, holding ourselves apart from the Truth of who we are: rays of the Light of Source capable of creating, as well as experiencing, an infinite world of beauty, peace, and love.
Be courageous in the examination of self; shine the Light of Love to dispel the darkness of the shadowland that we mistakenly perceive as out there. The safety and comfort of the home for which we long resides within, as does true power—both of which can be ours by embracing all aspects of self. Choose to live in the Light!