Light/Dark

When we try something new, we look for experiences or feedback that will affirm that we are doing well, succeeding, or learning what we need to learn.  We might say we are looking for a light to guide us.  Sometimes in the process of doing something new, we are just steadfastly putting one foot in front of the other, not knowing what's fully happening or exactly where we are in that process.  We are in a place that some have described as a "dark night of the soul."  These are times when we feel like we don't know anything, and we must rely on beliefs in the power of Love, the gift of Life, and the truth that "all things work together for the good."  I am in this place.  It's fairly uncomfortable, but it's honest.  I am staying open to the emergence of a new expression of my life.

"I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year,  'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'  And he said unto me, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.  It shall be unto you better than light and safer than a known way.' "        
                                         --M. Louise Haskins