So, it’s been a while and I’m still contemplating on what to say and how…
Every word spoken can’t be retraced, it can’t be erased. I’m thinking about the idea of the perfect positive words in a not so perfect, positive world. How do you stay positive when the obvious reality settles in? When your family members are murdered for cell phones or the colour of their skin? How do you stay positive when your husband loses his job and you have to live in a village for the under-priveledged? How do you stay positive when the financial pressure of life is breathing in your neck and every phone call is another threat of de-humanizing your inner being? How do you stay positive when your best friend lost a loved one to violence, when a mother loses a child, when people around you get hurt, when nothing is going right?
In the above mentioned cases, it seems so irrelevant to say “but God sees, He knows what you’re going through”. It’s not that your faith is at it’s limit, and even if it is, it’s most likely not the moral issue of the moment. The moment is: how do you reverse negativity in such a way that the person experiencing total turmoil, hell, sacrifice or any other negative emotion, can see through that emotion, to proclaim positivity into their lives to change their future? How do you divert someone’s attention from a horrible vision into one that will inspire them to seek plain comfort, or maybe peace or even motion them into helping others experiencing the same?
Is negativity in some way not a stage that one has to go through to experience total humanity? To enhance your life to something deeper than what the eye can see – to ‘n spiritual level where you are faced with the reality of who you are and in that make a specific decision to change your own future? If we see negative influences as difficult channels in our zone to really bring out the essence of life, then we might make the choice to change. If we choose to scream murder, to feelviolated, to demand – then we might as well chain ourselves as slaves to the cause of that and loose our souls within. If we ask the right questions, search for answers and decide to be pro-active… then we might actually be at a place where we can work a miracle in other people’s lives, where we can serve a purpose for the greater good.
The challenge is not to live the emotion, be carried away by others and not think about the reason for the experience. Mostly the reason isn’t punishment. The reason isn’t negative – it is a way for us to be channeled to live differently, to make use of our 80-odd years that we have and change the world.
Are you up to it?
