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thanks, art and jax and soup, for your postings and quotes on the light and dark--we seem to be in agreement on so much of this. i've long been attracted to paintings in which the contrast of darks highlights the lights even more (like lighthouses in stormy seas).

i've also long realized from my own personal experiences how important it was to experience the darkest darks in order to appreciate and see the brightest lights and the ultimate power of love--love always seems and feels ever-present even when on the surface things look confusing, chaotic and dark. walking through these moments with utmost compassion for myself (resulting in compassion for all others and appreciation for all roles played) has transformed the blackest moments of my life into my greatest gifts in being a human on earth.

it's also been of utmost importance in me to appreciate the role of the betrayer in such a way that i sincerely felt the love for my enemies that jesus spoke of in place of the fear which had me "judging" them as someone to be destroyed (whether through words or deeds) because of their "wrongness in being" rather than used as a tool for discernment and choice-making in my own journey. it was greatly important to me to find this clarity for i have played the betrayer role and other dark roles as well as getting to be the "good girl/guy."

i don't have to "like" the betrayer's deeds, but when i see the contrast he/she provides me in that moment, everything shifts.

it is out of love we all come, and it's unto love we all return.

bless you for sharing all that you have...
penny