Blind Devotion: A Light Unto My Path

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At first I wasn't sure where this movie was taking me.  I watched, waiting for that moment when the shifting of my heart would follow the shifting of the story.

That moment came.

And when it did, I was undone.

As I began to see the unfolding of this women's life, the unfolding of her life coming seemingly undone, out of control, I saw also her grasping desperately for control.  She was not about to give up her right to, her passion for, loving her husband.  And, furthermore, not give up the right to continue her days, as she always had.  What faded from her vision, did not fade from her heart.  Determined, she pressed through the darkness, so that she would somehow still feel the light of her love for her world, her husband, upon her heart.

But, in that process she became so hurt, that hurt was expressed in anger.  Her husband knew that there was something beneath that anger, something that invaded her heart in loss.

He steadfastly stood in the shadow of that anger, in love.  In patience.  In step after step faith, that somehow he would see, what was now to him, unseen.

As it was for her.... the world going, unseen.

But along this unseen path they had not expected to have to trod, a new sight broke forth.  A new light, something no one might have ever experienced had it not been for the shadow and unseen realm, to have emerged.

In the darkness of her world closing in around her, someone brought a ray of hope and light to her path.

Her husband saw something in the dark, fading away moments that once held a light of common love and exchnages, and offered a new exchange of love.

Unseen to her, but in radiant beauty, perfectly seen to him.

The courage to love her in a way he never expected.

He walked in her shadow, where he brought perfect light to her world.  Light that had he not walked so closely with her, loving her unseen, she would have never found the courage to walk on, as courageously as she did.

She did not accept defeat, because of the darkness.

He did not allow her darkness, to drown out her light to see.

And together they saw a whole new world of light and love.  A world that now held a greater and even more potent love for each other.

Selfless.

Sacrifice.

Covenant, love.

Peering into this moment, my eyes began to weep.  I heard His whispering voice speak to my darkness, and tell me this.

"This is what I do for you each day, my Beloved.  I follow behind you, so that in the darkness of circumstance, thought and weariness, you make it safely to where I'm leading you.  I go with you, in your shadow, and as I do, I flood your heart, and your mind with light, over and over though the days, in those moments when your crying out for direction, I show you the way.  No, you don't always see me doing this for you.  And, sometimes you get hurt and angry as to how things are going for you.  Sometimes, you are even tempted to blame Me.  But, my Beloved, I see beyond the darkness and into the light of all I not only am going to be giving you along the way, but that which waits eternally for you.  For I have called you to great things, through the darkness...

for it is through the darkness I am teaching you how, to see."

As this all flooded the tears of my soul, that were now wetting the desk I was leaning on to watch ..... I began to see Him, a bit more clearly.  And through the darkness, I began to see into the Light of His Hope, again.

Dear Beloved,

There are so many who are walking in the darkness.  Their hearts have been blinded by the pain and trauma of life.  Over and over again, they have walked feeling alone, desolate and abandoned.  Oh Beloved, open the eyes of their heart that they may see Your Light, leading the way as a lamp unto their feet.  And that you will always be walking with them through the night.... I pray for __________today, Lord, that I might be able in some small way, have the privilege to walk with them through the dark of thier life, so that they may too see Your Light, loving them along their way, through the dark.

In my Beloved Jesus's, Name, Amen~