I often hear a thought saying that the world is out to get me.
When actually, the world has been working itself out for billions of years.
And the world has been working me out for billions of years, too.
The outcomes of events on earth have been calculated and practiced in order to work out,
us included.
Our beings are not separate from this vetted, credible process.
Our joyful, compassionate souls aren’t separate from us, hidden in a far away part of our beings under layers and layers of gunk, society, fear, addiction, distraction, greed…
They are here, talking to us,
seaping into little micro moments throughout the day,
like when we notice our own breath
or see a beam of sun through the cracks of leaves in the trees.
That goodness, that joy,
is the fullness that fills life’s air
and our own lungs.
And while it is shadowed sometimes with unfortunate yet inevitable and necessary sorrow,
even that sorrow is accounted for, making absolute sense.
Everything happening right now, everything that has happened, and everything that will happen
is exactly as it’s supposed to be.
The light in life will protect you
and it’s darkness will grow you.
It is not out to get you;
it made you.
Ali Walks Around 