Day 128e: What to do in Hell … (September 04, 2019)
“Sometimes in life you too will travel through Hell. And on some of these darker journeys you will meet people who think they are actually in Heaven because of their cleverness or their privilege or their material wealth or their ability to manipulate others or get away with things. The temptation for you, of course, will be to quickly travel past these people and leave them to their errant sufferings. Your own ego will tell you that they don’t understand Life’s greater meanings and never will; that they don’t comprehend who they have become and never will either. And yet these are precisely the people we have all been called to Love. These are precisely the people who need our kindness and generosity and forgiveness and compassion the most. Even though they may never understand that their deity (no matter its name or gender) is quite certainly not rejoicing with them because of their actions or ‘accomplishments,’ but rather is ever trying to free them from their false sense of victory by softening their hearts to those they are harming &/or ignoring. You who have walked the Higher Way of Love know what real joy is and you know that it isn’t what they are living. Indeed, you can see quite clearly, even in hell’s shadows, that it is their belief that they have ‘made it’ (along with the errant belief that are somehow especially worthy of the same) that is actually keeping them from the Kingdom of Heaven. And what will free them from this invisible-yet-steel-strong prison? Only those like you – only those who have chosen humility instead; only those who approach their arrogance with gentleness; only those who respond to their greed with generosity; only those who answer their callousness with kindness. Only those who – through actions more than word, and word more then feeling – are recklessly living The Way of Love. So rise up, my dear pilgrims; rise up and shine your light brightly. Shine your light without limit or condition, that those who would awaken and see will know their way Home.” ~ inspired by Shannon Alder
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