Copyright 2025 Don Ray
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OPPORTUNITY IN THE DARKNESS
We, these nominally
freewill individual elements of consciousness, find ourselves in this world of entropy,
inevitable death, need, hunger, suffering, and evil. We exist in more or
less solitary confinement, our experience of life singular and isolated, with
no way to share the essence of what it deeply feels like to be you and
me.
This might
initially seem discouraging, and then depressing, and then abjectly
hopeless. ……but only because we miss the point. Perceived from
a different perspective, a distinct Light becomes evident in the undeniable
darkness.
We are placed in a
form of existence with boundless opportunity to do good and practice
Love. Yet our individual corporeal existence is all about us, all about
our birth, all about our survival, all about our destiny.
We are given ample,
indeed boundless, opportunity to do good, to help, to alleviate suffering, to
rescue, to heal, to comfort. Anywhere we turn there is need, which is to
say, opportunity.
We do not have to
save the world. We cannot save the world. But we can save someone
or something, and in the process accept the gift of our own salvation.
There need be
little torment about exactly what to do. In this world of suffering the
opportunities are boundless. Raise your children, do a good job, or
rescue animals, or shelter the homeless, or serve on church committees, or be
politically informed and active. But for God's sake, for your sake, do
something. There is no single right path. There is no way for you
to save the world. But there are endless ways to save something and
someone.
That is the nature
and Purpose of this world of entropy, to provide opportunity, to provide the
Choice. At its core foundational structure, below the infinite
mathematical sequences that can only tease at a pseudo-determinism, resides
entropy, the statistically not quite impossible, and hence inevitable,
evolution of conscious life, and the inexorable death of that life. The
resulting overall perceived image is a grisly panoply of carnivorous
cruelty. Yet at the pixilated level of the individual elements of
isolated consciousness, there we see the Purpose, the beautiful Purpose, the
redeeming Purpose, in the opportunity to choose Love and beauty in
whichever direction we turn.
It is a Universe
and Creation of suffering. It is a Universe and Creator suffering…...all
for us, for each of us…..we children being born into what seems darkness
because our eyes are still closed, we children of a Light awaiting our Choice
to let it shine through us.
Copyright 2025 Don Ray
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