Focus on the light.
It makes for a great guide and a great guide is needed for the journey ahead.
One of the pictures that comes to me about life is a lot like the imagery of a dense forest. The trees are tall and full of branches that at times can appear to obscure any sense of light. Yet when you look up the light is there.
That light is not necessarily that of a celestial star like the sun or the moon. That light is on a hill that is beyond the dense forest. It is particularly helpful to navigate the route when the branches threaten to give the impression there’s no way through. You look up and see the light. See the light that points to activity and life. The light that says there is a route through the forest. There is a way through for the place to reach.
The light is a guide and a comfort.
The comfort is in the reality that the light that beckons you home nudges the image of home within. It is a light that says home can be experienced within and keep you going so that the inner and outer reality blends together however tricky the trail might be.
Sometimes it’s as though because we saw the light we know the trail and just get our heads down and follow the trail that we recall. Earnest though that might appear at first, it actually leads to stumbling and fumbling and relying on a lot of other things that is not the true light. It is no surprise that we end up getting lost down trails that may require movement on our part, but don’t really lead to progress. A lot of expenditure of energy, a lot of miles covered, a lot of scars, a lot of experience maybe even a lot of whimsical stories to tell, but where’s the light? Where has it led you?
Thankfully the light still shines and from time to time we can look up. We can look up and follow the way that shines by the light. As we focus on the light, we can be corrected when go our own way. That’s why it’s good to just follow good instruction.
Focus on the light.
(Photo by Elise Zimmerman on Unsplash)
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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