There is no easy walk to freedom
anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the
valley of the shadow of death again
and again
before we reach the mountaintop of
our desires.
Nelson
Mandela; after over two decades
in
prison, he was on this date elected
President
of South Africa, 1994
Nelson Mandela. An icon of our
own souls.
How long we can struggle! How long
we, as a person, can be imprisoned by our own issues and by the fears and the
ignorance of others! - held back from the “mountaintop of our
desires”.
Can someone not teach us how not to have to do this …. to have to
“pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again”? Or, is this
dying dying dying a human necessity?
Do we ever reach the
“mountaintop of our desires” … especially that of being a fully human, evolved,
actualized human being? Jesus seemed to say No … on the Mount of
Transfiguration. “You can’t stay here”, he said to Peter, James, and John. “No
booths are to be built. We must descend again to the plain.”
The Path seems to be one of
constant ascent and descent … letting go, small bit by small bit, of what is
false and training ourselves to recall the moments of “ascent” … what was for
the disciples Jesus’ “raiment white and glistering”, for Moses his veiled
shining face reflecting the blazing light of Yahweh.
Humanity has tackled
dehumanizing issues … all the “isms” and phobias … but we haven’t “solved”
them, any of them, by any means. North Carolina is but the latest example. I
guess I’ve decided - seen? - that they
will never get “solved” here on this Earth.
I guess we must be content
with glimpses. And find ways to remember the Light. And not be discouraged.
Brian+
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