“The Light Will Always Come.”

D,

There is never any healthy way to separate yourself from the troubles in the world. There is no wall high enough to keep out the consequences of sin and decay all around us. And, many times, in us and through us. It is not like we are always the light we are supposed to be. We are the aggressor in many places where we think we are the aggrieved. We cannot tune out from either thing: the dark without or the dark within. We are looking for solutions to both.

In a sense we already have the solution. The light will always come. There is no separating us from the things that happen but there is also hope for resolution. That starts with how we speak, how we act and how we live. We have control, and this is even arguable, over our own choices. Sometimes, an act of defiance, of refusing to join the murky fray, is the most holy thing we can do. It is not that isolated acts of rebellion make a dent in this present darkness. The advantages are all inside. Bad habits and good habits are all the sum of consistent choices. We have chosen what Clive Staples called “the good infection”. Surely and slowly, we want to be like God. That’s the habit we pursue.

It is not a case of counting the points and if they add up. The light is impending. All will see it. Yet, if you know even the tiniest morsel of the truth, why not attempt to live it out as loud as you can? Why wait for the glorious day when you can experience the glorious seconds along the way? Once you frame the universe as the eternal being then everything matters more not less. The immediacy is not panic but love. You want as much of this good stuff to show in you and through you. You have seen something, finally, that has always seen you. The things you do matter. The good will heal your soul and the bad will vanish in the coming illumination of all souls.