Z,
It may not seem like it many times but there is joy in the world. There are
things that lift the heart out of the dark and into hope. They exist, side by
side, with the pain we see and feel and try to avoid as best as we can. It is
not a coincidence that the spirit is broken and then the body fails or the
other way around. We need to feel a physical sense of safety in the world as
well as a spiritual sense of worth. Joy is both.
For many around the world, this is elusive. Physical conflict, high
crime rates, poverty and political instability, the big hot button issues of
our day, can place the body in harm and the mind in terror. The joy in the world
can be fleeting, in moments that pass and make the pain even worse, a mockery
of the light and lightness of things. This world is often the dreadful long night
of the soul.
I promise you that this is not the end of the story. The joy to come
will last forever. This trembling is the last throes of the pain of all the world.
Nothing is cured until all are cured. There is no world peace, equality or well
being without every single soul living in these hallowed states. This is the
promise that God makes. The light is here. Things are winding up. The pain has
been intense, but it is passing. The joy
will last forever.