Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it
Helen Keller
My friends, which do you choose to participate in? Which do you seek?
The suffering? Or the overcoming of it?
When you’re in the house of love, choosing the overcoming of suffering, you seek to heal, to understand, empathise, grow and help.
When you’re in the house of fear, choosing to suffer, you seek to control, retreat, punish, disempower, even to harm. “It’s for their own good”, you say, as your heart quietly breaks.
Love is freeing and expansive.
Fear is paralysing, myopic.
Friends, it is with these universal truths in mind, that we can meditate on letting go, on being with what is. Sit in silence and pray for a letting go of trying to control the lives of others, pray for the strength to instead hold an open heart and mind.
To sit like this keeps us present, and out of the rabbit hole of the past with all its guilt and regrets, littered with toxic, tragic “if only” and “shoulda”. History on this path is begging to be rewritten, dancing a tantalising, seductive waltz, promising to right past wrongs, to heal deep scarring wounds.
But, dear friends, if you break free from that hypnotic waltz, you will see the bleeding obvious truth: it’s an empty promise. The only time to write history is right now. The healing only happens now.
Now is the moment to reach out, say sorry, say no (or yes!), to put in a boundary, to choose a new path that leads to a better place.
Now is the moment to choose the overcoming of suffering over the practice of suffering.
Now is the moment you get to choose the house you live in: the house of love, or the house of fear, to let peace in, as it is waiting right there at the front door.
Dear friends, I want you to live in the house of love, for that is where we not only overcome the suffering, it is where we get to know who we truly are, find our peace and our power in a world that wants us to believe we have no choice in the matter.
Peace is always a choice. Often, it is the harder choice, so accustomed we are to the suffering, it is a heavy but familiar coat that we wear. In the suffering we are so consumed we can hide from ourselves, we can drown out that quiet but brave voice that keeps trying to be heard, that tells you “there’s another way and it is peaceful and loving!”
If only you will try.
My dear friends, if you choose to live in the house of love, peace will find you and you will find yourself living a life overcoming the suffering, again and again and again.
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