Truth

 

We do not create Truth. And we cannot change it. Truth is the matrix in which we exist. It is the correct paradigm. It comprises the principles of life and death. It is the only Standard by which human success and failure can be measured. It can be obscured, avoided, hated or ignored; but its pulses, vibrations, openings, closings, and bulwarks never change, as Light, undaunted by darkness. It is what is left when the smoke and dust of human deception are cleared away. Those who ignore or avoid it accumulate and generate negative energy--”karma”--and fall behind in the psycho-spiritual evolutionary blossoming—the pilgrims’ joyful journey to “New Jerusalem.” Those who respond in reverence to Its perpetual, gracious invitation and submit to Its righteous and loving requirements find unfeigned Peace and Freedom. They wake up and find themselves at Home. John 14:6

Facing the Fear of Hurt

 

When we choose to believe in and hope for the best in people, [even those who have acted in darkness and through whom we have been hurt many times] we are not being naïve or going “out on a limb” of vulnerability, as long as our hearts and minds are guarded by the Love and Wisdom of Christ. He commands us not only to Love [of course!] but also to NOT “cast your pearls before the swine.” Jesus is by no means an “enabler” or anybody’s “whipping post”; but He is also not hiding in fear from the vulnerability that True Love [agape, as some describe it] takes us into. And in all environments, we are eternally and infinitely safe in His Love.

HURT

 

Some words about “Hurt”: the hurt that is felt by all who have lived very long in this world.

I wall myself away from the hurt. I want to get and stay as far away from it as possible. I turn quickly away from anything that reminds me of it, bringing up the dreadful pain that I have felt so many  times before. I don’t want to feel it again, but--- Here it comes! I scramble upward, away from it.

Jesus stands beneath it in infinite Power, Radiant Love, a Refuge, waiting for me to surrender faithfully into it where there is Rest for my Soul.

That surrender takes me downward in a vortex of heart-smothering, oppressive, fatal-feeling hurt that quickly launches out ward and upward like a volcanic eruption fueled by that Radiant Light that was waiting for me. I am surrounded by Love. Infused with the Power of that Love. My heart is now connected with forever, and in “Forever” everything and everything and everything is so much more than perfect. The Longing is fulfilled. The Hurt is embraced and becomes the important fuel for the fires of Love.

I turn and walk down the mountain, like the disciples after the Transfiguration.

There’s important peaceful work to do.