R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Thoughts

“Life Lesson #13: If you want to get out of the darkness you are in, you must be willing to experience momentary shock and glare.” Enough Dammit: A cynic’s guide to finally getting what you want out of life” – Karen Salmonshon

During your midlife divorce recovery is one time in your life when you probably feel like you are stumbling around in a cosmic darkness. I was in the dark in lots of ways. There was little illumination at all in my life. Karen Salmonshon suggests that often we have to be shocked … sometimes shocked with “BIG TIME CRISES SHOCKS OF PAIN” to get us to come to our senses. As she goes on to say, “The Universe knows there is a better way to live than with your incorrect, incomplete, negative, braindirtied beliefs, so it gives you SHOCKING EXPERIENCES … hoping to jolt you and jumpstart you to restart your life again with a new and better start.” All of us after a heart-breaking, gut-wrenching divorce want a new start. Enough pain makes us finally say …. Okay! Okay! I give up! I’m ready to turn the light back on! Enough of darkness! I’m ready to take the responsibility for my own God-given light. We were all created to shine. The verse below talks about “the Light of the World.” By accepting our part of that light, we, too become beacons of goodness and hope to others. That’s why we’re here. That’s our job. You’ve had the “shock and glare.” It definitely got your attention. Now, use that jolt to turn on the light that’s been in you all along and can’t wait to shine again.

“Later, in one of his talks, Jesus said to the people, ‘I am the Light of the world. So if you follow me, you won’t be stumbling through the darkness, for living light will flood your path.” John 8:12 (Living Bible)