Living Light
Waking Up In Dark Places
The Stages Of The Four-Foot Drop:
1. Not knowing
– blindness
– false light
2. Knowing
– seeing & feeling
– holy darkness
3. Choosing
– practicing, integrating,
– first light
4. Being
– living light
What Remains
"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Being (Living Light)
This is not purity.
It’s not transcendence.
It’s sustained alignment with basic decency and mature spiritual living.
This is easy with those who have been kind to us, and with those we have yet to meet. With the others, it’s harder. Even the smallest flicker of satisfaction at another’s downfall reveals a momentary disconnect from the consciousness of living light.
Complete embodiment is rare. Always partial. Situational. Never total.
Being is anti-climactic. There’s no arrival. No revelation to announce. No spotlight to step into. It’s simply what remains when performance falls away.
At first, it feels heavy. Responsibility without recognition. Awareness without reward. Over time, that weight becomes lighter; not because it disappears, but because capacity has grown.
Capacity extends. It reaches without reaching, without effort.
Capacity is. We are.
Once the language of darkness is understood, performances of light become transparent. Not through judgment, but through clarity.
What’s real no longer needs to convince. What’s false can no longer hide.
Living light does not need to shine.
It is what shines.
On Being
“I AM WHO I AM. Tell them I AM has sent me to you.” – Exodus 3:14 (God)
“I am the first and the last.” – Isaiah 41:4 (God)
“I am He; I am the first, I am also the last.” – Isaiah 48:12 (God)
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