In Blackness and Hate

You've heard the comment no doubt when something bad has happened, "Bad things happen to good people"; and it's true. Bad things do appear to happen to good people. When something terrible happens in your life, your life path will have suddenly split into two roads and once you walk down them, there's no going back.

The first road will be filled with pain, regret, doubt, what if's, and eventually hate. These feelings will consume you and stunt your growth as a person. The event that caused this will have effectively stopped you from moving forward with your life.

The other road is one filled with fear, surprise, perhaps feelings of hate that are used to empower you. People who walk down this road acknowledge that something terrible has happened, but they use the experience to empower themselves and educate others.

If you lost a child, it's heartbreaking. The person taking the first road may sit in the child's room and be unable to do anything for themselves. They will continue to live in the past until they are so filled with blackness and hate they can do nothing else but lash out.

The person that takes the second road will grieve for a while and realize that the child didn't pass away in vain. If it was due to an accident, what can be done to stop it from happening again? How can people be educated? If that loss was due to disease, can anything be done to prevent or speed up research for a cure?

Do not give in to blackness and hate - once it invades your heart it is very difficult to get out - but through belief in the Divine and a commitment to your fellow man, it can be done.
 posted by Friends of Leah