The darkness is not real at all…It is just the blindness caused by the dazzling beauty of the light…
I have been praying for (and thinking about) a young woman who carries a heavy cross.
In her life there are things that she must deal with due to the choice of others that have a serious and very profound impact not only on her but on her children.
And I have been reflecting on this woman a great deal lately because she is in terrible need of prayers.
And because she (and indeed her whole family) is suffering, she often feels overwhelmed with pain and feels weak and flat.
And I have been thinking about that feeling of flatness over the last few days. You see, it is easy when a soul is suffering to feel flat and unable to move forward. And actually, instead of being flat and seeing a soul unable to move forward, I can see that soul with supernatural eyes. I see that dazzling soul…
When a soul is experiencing the greatest test of suffering it is then and only then that such a soul is actually moving forward at a lightning-fast speed towards heaven.
And as I consider that, it is no wonder to me that such a soul would feel flat and in the dark. Because when God works His wondering in the life of a soul, that life becomes dazzling, and their soul becomes so beautiful it dazzles. And so – in a way – that soul becomes blind to the wonder because they are in the middle of a blinding light that resonates from within their soul because when they are suffering most that is when they are closest to God…
And because they are living in that moment of suffering, in the middle of a dazzling light, their eyes cannot see. It is as though they had stared directly at the sun, and they had become blinded by the light.
And I have been thinking about that. Because when a soul is in the midst of suffering, the hardest thing in the world is to be able to see the beauty in the sacrifice. And it is difficult to see the beauty in the sacrifice because there is so much pain in that suffering that the pain overwhelms.
But there is beauty – perfect beauty – in the sacrifice of Our Blessed Lord on the Cross. In the mutilation of His Holy Body and in the Perfect Sacrificial Suffering on the Cross the most beautiful love that the world could ever know was displayed.
And as I think about that, I cannot help but be dazzled by the souls for whom I pray, for their suffering is united with the perfect suffering of Christ Crucified and in that perfection, it is easy to become blinded by the beauty of that light and to think that we are only seeing darkness…
And today, I remember that the darkness is not real at all… It is just the blindness caused by the dazzling beauty of the light…
For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
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