Everything Illuminated Becomes a Light

Open mic 🎤 time

This came in from a site I subscribe to called “Word of the Week” over at Contemplative Outreach:

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,
but rather expose them. …
Everything exposed by the light becomes visible—
and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. 

~ Ephesians

It struck me as I read the commentary that put the passage into a modern perspective—“Each of us has within the greatest teacher, an inner voice of the soul that knows and knows that it knows. This is true conscience, the wisdom of the soul, a seeing that matures as the soul evolves…” —that this is what we are doing as writers. I mean…this is what we are really doing with all this word smithing.

Imagine that each time you sit to write a particular moment of your life via the scene (NOTE: Not told. Told is controlled. And that’s more shadow and ego than light), you are taking up the mantle of vulnerability and humility. You are saying, “I agree to be in this moment again, and to feel it all. I agree to be surprised by what comes up, too, and if I start crying…well, I start crying. If I must rage, I will rage. If I must laugh, so be it. And if I must realize it’s time to change my mind, I’ll do that, too.”

That’s it. That’s bringing light to the darkness within yourself. Once on the other side of this thing, that light will not go back into the darkness again. It can’t. You’ve done it. You’ve brought the light to the dark and added more light to this world.

Just…by…writing.

Contemplate that for a while. 🤔 And then drop me a line in the comments. The mic is open. What are you bringing to the light?

The Light heals, transforms and creates more light.
 
To single-pointedly live this path must be a great service to the world.

Word of the Week 3/19/23