dailydatewithgod

We like to put on a good face.  We all wear masks and we need them in order to function in this world.  It would not make sense to have everything transparent to everyone all the time.  We need a way to have some sanctity within ourselves.  But sometimes those masks become murky.  We get lost in the mask so much we begin to think it is us.  We get carried away and do not notice how the dark side begins to seep out of the corners of the mask.  It is not a bad thing to have a murky side, we all do.  It is pretending we don’t by the masks we where that gets us in trouble.  There are light and darkness, good and bad, right and wrong, and so on.  We live in an existence of duality so this should not be news.  The masks become murky when we use them to try and snuff out the shadow.  It is better to own our darkness and work with it than put on a thicker mask.  We do not need to reveal all sides of ourselves to everyone all the time, but us not owning up to the presence of shadows in our personality creates the murk.  Murk is what becomes of our shadow when we are not aware of it or pretend it is not there.  Embracing our shadow with curiosity allows us to shed some light on it and not fester in the murk.  It is our growth in wholeness. It is the calling of our heart to embrace the shadow so murk does not form.  Our shadows only turn to murk and work to our detriment when we deny them access to light.  No light, no growth.  No light, no love. No light, no wholeness.