dailydatewithgod

It is convenient to think of things as being one or the other.  It makes sense to our minds if we can categorize something or someone into this file or that file.  The organization of our reality is important to our sense of safety. Part of maturity is realizing that most things which have presence are not one or the other, they are what they are in the moment they are in.  There is much more nuance to aliveness then our minds can grasp.  It is neither light nor dark, it is shades of aliveness.  Our hearts which are ever aware of the reliance upon the flow of life in and out understand the need to make room for the shades of being. It is difficult in a results-driven culture to make room to value the process.  The process is messy and nuanced. The process requires presence in the moment to whatever shade of our experience is showing up.  Our hearts give us the courage to breathe through whatever shade of darkness or light is present.  We build up ideas in our minds that all good and light is the best way to be.  If being present means allowing for some shades of darkness to be there which would we rather? Do we want to not be present with what is and stay only with an expected ideal in our heads or do we want to live in and through an experience fully which is right here, right now?  The shades of darkness that we seemingly want to avoid can often make a turn towards the light sooner than I imagine.  In my experience being with those shades allows them to move through me instead of causing me to hold on to them because I am trying to pretend they are not there.