Believe
in Life
“Believing
in life means it’s okay to let go. We can trust where we’ve been. We can trust
where we’re going. And we’re right where we need to be now. Believe in life.”
Melody
Beattie (Journey to the Heart, p.167)
Right this moment you
may be laughing. You may have read Melody Beattie’s lines above and thought, “Are
you kidding me? How can that be so?” I don’t blame you. We’re in perilous
times, but not for the first time. We’ve been here before, and we will be here
again until humans wake up.
Read for instance the
opening lines of Charles Dickens “A Tale of Two Cities” written in 1859:
“It was the best of all
times, it was the worst of all times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age
of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it
was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of
hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing
before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the
other way…”
Sounds familiar, right? Dickens
was writing about the French Revolution which happened a century before that.
We cycle around and here we are again. We will keep cycling around this best
and worst of all times until we gain enough consciousness to figure it out. Each
and every time we find ourselves here, it is for the same reason—inequality.
The chasm between the rich and poor, the advantaged and the disadvantaged.
It is Life, it is Spirit,
that keeps bringing us around to this place. We can trust that Life will do it again
and again until we get the message. Spirit keeps giving us opportunities to right
what is wrong. The question is whether we will stick with the cycle or perhaps
wake up and see the light. Inequality leads to war, rebellion, and social upheaval.
It always has, and it always will. Once again, it is up to us to choose.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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