Someone Afraid in the Dark

We meet someone afraid in the dark, afraid of the dark, afraid to even reach a hand out for fear of what might be hiding in the dark that might hurt them even more. When the person in that dark place meets us, you and I are just another potential source of fear in their dark place.

They don’t know we won’t hurt them.

How do you find out that the people in this room won’t hurt you?
By building relationships demonstrated by our being kind to one another.

Your kindness reflects your light your light reveals something in the dark less scary, less threatening and allows the person to extend their hand not into the dark but towards a person. Someone whose light creates a path for them to walk on in a very frightening place, a place everyone who’s been there describes as a dark hole, a place of feeling utterly alone and lost. A place beyond words needs kindness to be demonstrated and care to be evident, not just spoken. Today the only way for us to be towards each other is kind. We can’t give to others what we are not experiencing ourselves. We can’t be selective to whom we give kindness to without limiting our own experience and diminishing their sense of who they are. If I recognise my need to be free to be me then I know a truth that is a key to unlocking myself and others alike. Please allow yourself the truth it’s so ok to be you, it’s more than ok it’s incredible and unique.

M.