When I was young, a child, life always seemed so far away. Family events, holidays, school excursions and so on, stretched far ahead of me and time passed excruciatingly slowly until the grand event finally came to pass. As an adult it’s different. Now, life’ is in my face every second of every hour of every day of every month of every year. There is no sense of distance between events, no real anticipation, there is just a sense of, now, a sense of continually being in the present moment.
Which is better? Living with the agony of constant anticipation or navigating, what can at times be life’s cloying presence? Do we grow from one state to the other as the child matures to the adult, or is something else taking place, something psychospiritual which is as necessary for our growth as is the air we breathe?
Life presses itself upon us constantly, suffocatingly at times, a fact brought home to me recently by the words a friend wrote to me in an email.
“… with so much conflict in Sydney in recent days, I had to mentally switch off while attuning my soul to God. I just want to see God’s love spread in the world so that there can be one human family instead of the incessant conflicts.”
And there it was. So clear. So simple. I was reading my own feelings in the words written by my dear friend. It seems to me that sensitive empathic souls feel the ills brought about by others deeply, powerfully, perhaps because they also feel the beauty of the presence of God, of the continually present Light.
It is a somewhat cruel juxtaposition, is it not, seeing both the dark and the light, and having to choose, always, constantly, which to travel toward? The conflict so present in the world is a reflection of our own internal spiritual conflict. It mirrors our inner struggle to awaken, our struggle to work on ourselves against an ageless inherited ancestral negativity, and our yearning for the Light, always the Light, to dispel the ever-present, encroaching darkness.
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