“God, why do I need to understand my own darkness?”
“Because you asked me to show you your light.”
“But then why do I have to experience such struggle?”
“Because you asked me to bless you with miracles my child.”
The little boy was getting frustrated with God.
“Can’t I just experience love without the sadness, the pain, the loss?”
God looked quizzically at the little boy.
“In which dimension are you referring to my child?”
“Where I exist, light and darkness, love and pain, suffering and freedom; they mean different things than they do in your world.”
“Humans complicate such matters of the heart when it comes to their own existence and experience and then when they cross, they evolve into such an energy that there is no differentiation in those matters of the heart you ask about.”
The little boy, still looking at the heavens, wanted to ask one more question.
“Well, can I have that now? Do I have to wait?”
“I’ve never stopped any human from experiencing that kind of heaven on earth in their hearts or minds. It’s up to you my child.
You can change your internal experience and understanding any time you want, so that you struggle less. The power has always been inside of you.”
The little boy became quiet and God continued.
“Humans want more. They want to rush through the darkness and the pain to get to the light without realizing the light never left.
They refuse to see the miracles in the suffering.
They can’t see the peace in the loss.”
“I don’t know God, humans sound so confusing to me now,” the little boy said.
“I’m right there with you my son. I’ve been perplexed by their need to perpetuate their own suffering when the answers are only a heartbeat away.”
And with that, the little boy thanked God and sat for a while in the sacred silence God left behind.