You have been deeply damaged through the years by the mystery of suffering.

Sometimes the damage becomes so confrontational that you agonise over the overwhelming gulf between who you really think you are and who you really want to be.

The truth is, who you think you are is vastly different from who you really are. But to know who you really are, you must look beyond yourself towards the defining source, who is also the source of all light. If you keep looking at yourself, you lose your bearings and see only grim darkness.

You are not in darkness. If you were truly in darkness, you would not know light. The very desire within you to walk in the light, to live in the light, to love in the light, points to your having been touched by light in your life. You have tasted light, and that is why you desire light.

Don’t you see, everything you need you already have? You have it more than most others. You are loved. Whilst you may spend your days trying to convince yourself of this reality, others are busy loving you in no superficial measure. Long not for a gift you already have.

Be inspired by love, that you may inspire love. Because you are the beloved.