Upon awakening this morning these thoughts fell fully formed and flowing like a river.
I will tell you a puzzle. Perhaps it will be a puzzle of delight, one which unwinds its light as you wend you way wistfully through its maze. On the other hand the puzzle may be dimly perceived, perplexing, petulant.
The puzzle may morph a bit with time and effort, but that does not detract from the truths/frights within.
You see, for all of this time you have held a key unknowingly. This key would glitter in the sun and be rendered an object of curiosity , or other times it would lie unseen in a dark drawer.
Your life changes from day to day, from hour to hour and it is pivoting upon your thoughts, your judgements, your preferences, your disgusts. Every turn within your mind stream, conveys a new universe, each fork you choose propels one option closer to non existence and reinforces the other option.
You are the architect of all you survey, and the builder, and the inhabitant of your creation. You make a world from which you cannot ever escape. Yet, the content and consequences in the world are completely within your power to control.
Each time you entertain the thought (no matter whose voice is attached to the thought!) that you are suffering, or needy, or failing to achieve, you are laying down the cobblestones in a road on which you are walking. Your paved path is easier to tread the next time and those thoughts will gain greater speed of transit. You will have encouraged a habitual thought and made it easier for it to be re born and to carry you within its orbit.
In a like manner if you carry thoughts of generosity, caring for others and entertaining a willingness to help others you lay down cobblestones to make this journey more predictable, more dependable.
Each thought you embrace is like a candle. Sheltered from the errant breeze it provides light for travelling the maze. Yet! There are times it would be better if you blew it out!
For an illumination easing ones path down the cobblestones of despair does you no good. In the dark you can find your way for you are the architect of all you survey. You can pivot on a dime refuse the illumined path and stride forcefully through the dark toward another path, a better path, a brighter path.
You can master the puzzle. You can choose the way of light, love, generosity, and peace and smooth over the cobblestones. As you return again and again to this path and bring more construction materials you can add streetlights, cafes, theaters, libraries, and most importantly friends who will be companions on your redemptive journey. Like the Phoenix you arise and fly again, simply because you choose another path.
