I SEARCH FOR LIGHT

TO DISPEL OUR DARKNESS

I haven’t written for a few days. I’ve made the mistake of reading the news, all of it. It is hardly anything other than darkness. I will not perpetuate darkness by making the mistake of writing about it. We have too much of that. So, I’ve remained quiet, sinking deeper into the dark waters.

I forced myself to sit and search for the light. It is said, and the thousands of reported NDEs confirm it, that God is indescribable light, and unspeakable love. I, in the tradition of Carl Jung, do not believe in God.

I KNOW GOD!

Perhaps my Knowing may not be as intimate as that of my teacher, Dr. Jung, but none the less it is Knowing without a shadow of doubt. Stepping forth in faith, then finding your foot on a previously unseen solid stone, then another step, and another brings knowing, and the patient friend of faith can step back and smile as her student walks into the darkness with confidence, with Knowing as his companion.

I am assigned this dark path with no visible stone upon which to set my foot. But now, through faith’s introduction, I have Knowledge. This path was not assigned to me to fail and fall, but to strengthen and to teach me. So, although the stones are unseen, I know they are there, waiting for my foot. I do not believe it, I Know it.

Thus is our walk through this dark and threatening world. Yes, OUR walk. I may not see you, or you see or hear me, but we each Know we are here, each on our own path, headed toward the…