Each week I take a question from my Facebook wall to answer here on this page. If you have something on your mind about the spirit world, you can post your question in the comments or on my Facebook wall.
This week’s question is from John P: ” Why have I had so many bad thing happen in my life?”
Answer from MarVeena:
I try not to judge things as being bad, it just is.
From the Universes perspective these things are challenges that will help shape our character down the road and give us a chance to see what we are made of.
You all know that I am dabbling artist. I love to paint with oil colors.
One of my art teachers showed me the power of using shadowing, highlights and low lights.
When you are working on a painting and begin to work in the shadows, the whole piece becomes more dimensional. You can really begin to see space and distances and shapes. Then you start to add in high lights and low lights and the art takes on more dept and way more interest. Without the shadows, highlights and low lights the art with be flat and maybe boring. Without much interest.
Our life is like a mosaic, it is always unfolding.
We need to practice having faith in how it unfolds.
It is through the high times and low times that we gather substance to our self, more interest. If we had not gone through the bad times and gained shadows, we wouldn’t have nearly the depth and interest that we now have.
Artists have created dazzling images from still video frames from many different cinematic films. In the same way, our lives up until today are a mosaic of past experiences, memories, lessons, good times, and bad.
When we look back, sometimes we tend to look at the individual frames, focusing on that past memory alone. We may become fixated on the individual frames and the emotions they hold, the colors they portray. In any moment, we can define our present feelings based on these memories, literally missing a much more beautiful picture that is constantly unfolding. When we can zoom out, taking in a larger perspective of what has occurred in our lives, we can begin to see something quite dazzling happening. What that larger image portrays is a test of faith, a developing rapport with the life artists that we are for ourselves.
Faith is something that many may find themselves lacking in. It is literally trusting that which cannot be seen, that is not understood, something that has no tangible proof. Good times come and they are welcomed as memories to mold our thoughts. However, when we look back, our lives are not completely filled with positive memories. There are dark times as well. Fear can keep us from recognizing the importance of shadow experiences.
Just as an artist relies on shadows, darkness of color to create their works, we too live experiences that brush in darkness onto our life mosaics. We may cringe at the thought of these attributes that make up our past lives, however, they hold an important function, one that is equal in importance to the brightest of colors. It is those negative experiences in life that highlight the positive ones. For without a night sky, a sunrise will never be realized. Does not an artists shadows highlight their brightest colors?
Having faith that our past has been part of a plan to create a larger image, an original piece of art that continues to be drawn with every breath we take, is a skill that can take time to realize. Trusting that the choices we made in the past were for our better good, were of a total palette of colors, not just bright, but dark as well, is to have faith that the future will hold the same variety, the same potential to create beauty in totality.
Allowing our lives in the moment to experience both light and dark and to realize the gift that each is for our own spiritual evolvement, is an exercise in learning to accept how we build our life mosaic with light and with darkness. From darkness comes the greatest potential for the brightness of light in color to illuminate our lives like the rising and setting of the sun. Likewise, from our brightest days, the darkness of life lessons arrive to serve their purpose equally as well, in a beauty all their own.
Accepting these truths, just as an artist accepts his choices in color, is to realize that all of it is an exercise in love. Having faith in having no answers for the past is to realize love on a level that accepts the self and others fully. It is how unconditional love is manifested within us.
Believing what has been laid before us, what has been told to us, what you have seen in others, without understanding, is to have faith in oneself, trusting that it is of a plan that is beyond the self. It is a realization of the works of God within every moment of our lives, past, present, and future.
The rising and setting of the sun is a daily reminder of God’s plan for us to live through both light and dark times. It can be taken for granted as it assuredly has been witnessed every day of our lives. Yet, there it is, always displaying the truth that our lives are a mosaic of the brightest of colors, and the total absence of it as well.
We never doubt our next breath. Yet it can be difficult for us to have faith in the belief of something unseen, unproven, or never having occurred. However, we all have stories of experiences that we thought would never happen to us. Afterward, are we believers then? To be shown as a prerequisite to stepping forward is to limit our own color palette in life. Does an artist only paint in blue? Yet to blindly accept, do, feel, and create is to take that step in complete faith. It is the greatest act of love we can do for ourselves. It is how we can create beauty in our lives, in creating our life mosaic in every moment. It gives us power to create with unlimited potential. Power without faith is limited, it is bridled, it is chained to doubt. However, combining power and faith together can result in an explosion of potential that radiates all of the colors of the rainbow, every spectrum of light, giving every palette to the artists that we are.
With all of that said, we can begin to look back at our lives, seeing the beauty of the mosaic that it is, admiring all of its frames, its pieces, its experiences lived. Doing so allows us to trust what has unfolded. Trusting gives us faith that what has happened was for our overall good.
Attaining faith allows us to experience love on new levels, through a looking glass unrealized. Because through that vision we begin to allow the light into our lives of wavelengths unrealized. Doing so allows us to realize that God does have a plan for us, and it is good, even when it is bad. This is what gives us hope and allows us to dream the dreams we do. All of it is beauty, art, vision. It is how we all create our own original mosaic masterpiece called life.
Bright Blessings
MarVeena Meek
(c) Oct 2014
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