The Agony and the Ecstasy
I was on Facebook and someone was posting their horror of being in the hurricane and losing everything. Another post, just below it, was an inquiry that said ” Anyone know of a place to find some laughs tonight”? Of course, neither was aware of the other’s post. It occurred to me that is how life is all the time all over the world. Someone experiencing tragedy and the other euphoria.
The Big picture is that everything is Oneness and has always been One and will ever be. Oneness just is; and is not manifested. Oneness also chooses to manifest in a finite way in a hundred trillion possible options. In this marvelous choosing process, those parts of Oneness which incarnate, and become human, get to experience the wide expanse of this expression. And some of the time it hurts and some of the time it is unspeakable joy.
So as our friend John Denver said in a wonderful song of the paradox of life “Some Days are Diamonds, Some Days are Stones”. Here is how it goes:
When you ask how I’ve been here without you, I like to say I’ve been fine, and I do.
But we both know the truth is hard to come by. And if I told the truth, that’s not quite true.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone. Some times the hard times won’t leave me alone.
Some times the cold winds blow a chill in my bones.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone.
Now the face that I see in my mirror, more and more is a stranger to me.
More and more I can see there’s a danger in becoming what I never thought I’d be.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone. Some times the hard times won’t leave me alone.
Some times the cold winds blow a chill in my bones.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone.