December 7, 2009 Living in the contrast

It is interesting what comes to my heart as I sit looking out through the sun room windows of our new/old home, thinking that it felt like we left Egypt, and now that we have arrived many thoughts flood my mind and my heart. It's all in the view...because Egypt and the Promise Land have no borders in this world. We choose where we live by surrender.

"An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows." Anonymous

Living boldly through darkness, through all that is treacherous and deadly, opens a greater experience within Light. Too often our choice is to isolate ourselves and choose one over the other, that is, darkness vs. light. The fullness of the greatest Light I experience within the darkness. There is no reason to fear the darkness because in the Light, that is, Jesus' Light, darkness is illuminated. We can be in the darkness and not be overtaken by it.

Though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death (every minute of every day of our lives) we do not fear evil as we press forward through all circumstances in the guiding Light of Jesus.

It is only His Light that has the 'possibility of changing the picture'.

He guides us. How else can we see? What we see with our physical eyes is only a microcosm and depiction of the reality that is infinitely available to us in this world.


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Teresa Parsons

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