Encouragement

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Cat’s Eyes


Darkened with despair and dampened with tears, a tunnel of terror and trial with no light at the end. I search and strain but there is only darkness begetting more darkness. I cannot recall where I began and there seems no end to see nor can I even discern my direction. Light, I beg, give me some light!

Such was my lament for so many years of yearning. I had lost all hope. I no longer believed that there was light and sought only because it was less painful than sitting alone in the darkness. Each day a new fear arouse more horrifying then yesterday, leaving me terrorized by the thought of tomorrow. First I thought myself a victim, abandoned and abused and so I cursed the darkness and walked with rage. Then I was surrounded by sorrow and suffocated with shame. I deserved no light! Why should I further torment myself? Could seeking reduce my just sentence or merely distract my discontent? I stumbled upon “gifts” exquisitely wrapped but they were only heavy chains which I could not cast off. I thought I found nourishment but it was laced with poison that made me crave for yet more. I encountered companions but they only convinced me of my wickedness and sore that I would never see light again. I saw mirages of light that faded fast after they cruelly dashed my false hope.

I looked outward for light only to avoid the anguish from looking in. I was beaten and felt the fool for knowing not when to surrender. Why must I continue to fight, am I cursed to forever seek this illusion of light? Why do I even continue to wonder? Of whom do I ask? Is there no one here to whom I can beg? Why is the only response the demons terrible taunt? Give me light ! Or in the dark I will continue to fight … and wail, and gnash and cry out.

Wait; is that my own echo that I hear? My it sounds so near! No, my voice is harsh and graveled by sickness, sorrow and pain, this is soft, gentle and sweet with a melodious refrain.It is unlike any I have heard before
yet I know of what it speaks and I crave for more.

I listen …

“And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.”; “His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.”; “Look on me and answer, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death”; “For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light”; “even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.”; “the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned

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