 The only way out is through....
Have you heard of Dante's Inferno? His description of Hell was that it was multilayered, and progressively more cruel and horrific as you travelled to the center. BUT....and here's the good part....in order to get out of hell, you have to travel to it's center and climb up Lucifer's body to reach Heaven! Isn't that awesome!!
I have used this idea quite a few times in my life, relating situations to personal hells that I have traveled through. I also remember the man who will push a rock up a hill for eternity, always having the rock roll back down the hill as soon as he reaches the top. It seems that if I decide that it is all too much....I can't do it anymore and this is all my life will ever be, I am stuck pushing my personal boulder up a mountain.....only to have the darn thing roll back down.
I have to move through, all the way through, to the center of hell. Face all the terrifying demons (my past, my history) that haunt me and terrify me.....to find heaven, which is MYSELF! I then realize that all of those demons are illusions....I can claim them as part of myself, or I can let them go.
I have also found that there is a bottom to the pit of fear....which I had never known, and that to find the bottom you have to keep moving.
And you know, at the bottom of that pit of fear, I have found both tremendous strength and an amazing peace!
I still have some bits of hell to walk through, but I also know that the potential for growth that I will see in myself is in direct correlation to the amount of hell I will face! And you know....I just love to grow!
It will always, no matter what happens or doesn't happen, be OK!
Mg
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