A Glow through the Glass

You will never make peace, because you ARE peace. You will never wake up one morning to discover that the politicians have made peace on earth, because peace is not the nature of this world. This world is the field of conflicting opposites. And that is precisely why it is the place of liberation, where we come for awhile to discover, "I am not this, I am not that," until we finally say, "I Am." 

Liberation won't happen in paradise, because heaven has no opposites; things are too dreamy there. So we come to this world of polarity because polarity awakens us. Not this, not that. We are strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 

Yet when we are awake, we illuminate the earth. The light of the Divine shines out through our heart-window. So Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world." Yet he could also say, "My peace I give you, not as the world giveth." 

The whirled cannot make peace. YOU are the peace in the midst of the whirled. Because you are not one of the opposites, ever polarizing your energy for or against. You are Love, and love has no opposite. 

You are the tiny lamp that fills the whole darkness. And how do you fill the darkness? You do not resist it, you do not struggle against it. You allow the darkness to give birth to you. So Jesus also declared, "Resist not the evil one."

It takes the highest form of courage to refuse to become the opposite. This is the way of Mary's womb, and the wayless courage of her child. 

A glow illumines the forms in a stained glass window, yet the glow does not come From the glass, it comes Through the glass. You are not the glass. You are the glow that illumines the world with forgiveness. And the sun is your heart.

Image: the mysterious window in Kilmore Church, Scotland