Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 111
𝓦𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓾𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓻
Beyond The Looking Glass is the second book in the Unseen series, a story that came to me from the other side. A story where I thought I was just the narrator until I heard the Words of the Unseen.
This second story goes beyond time and place and mixes the long ago with the here and now. Because history keeps repeating, until we learn and do something about it.
Beyond The Looking Glass - Words of the Unseen - Chapter 111
The world had moved on; the empty seat next to me on the plane back to Spain made that clear. By now, I have come to realize that maybe this is the cadence of my faith.
That being in one place too long is not for me, I am not fleeing, but the winding path called life seems to have something in store for me.
There is no sense in fighting destiny, it´s like fighting shadows, or worse, an enemy you can not see or anticipate.
Faith is the hardest thing, accepting that there is something that you don´t know, that you do not control, but that drives your whole being through a lifetime of being human.... it could make one go mad.
Accepting faith, to accept that there is such a thing, I first need to admit that I believe there is more than what the eye can see.
Well, that part, I think, I have covered very well over these last decades. Then the next hurdle is to grasp that all those things that seemingly happened for no reason, all had a purpose.
That all the sticks and stones that life threw at you, all the pain and shame, the mistakes, but also the victories, were meant to shape you.
Fear often makes us forget, but life is more like a video game than we realize. And yes, if we die, it´s game over, and exactly that confuses us frequently.
Too many aim to reach the last level, clueless to what it looks like. They tread as safely as possible, but as anyone playing games knows, sometimes reaching the next level requires a leap of faith or a berserker attack.
Some levels can not be completed by going slow, and carrying enough health potions in case you get attacked. It will take a lifetime to complete the level that way, too find out that there is a next, and many there after...while you are tired and without any potions left.
To finally find and save Zelda, the game might ask you to leave everything you have behind. All your weapons, all your armor, all your protection collected during all those hours of playing.
It might suggest that you walk naked into the sea of fire, you played for so long, gathered so much, and now this?
To be prepared to take that next step, knowing you have only one life left before it´s game over, is what it means to accept your faith.
I did not see myself as Link from Zelda in my meditations, by the way. I have a hard time seeing myself in meditations, maybe because I am not looking for myself.
When asked how I see myself, or what my Avatar would look like, I thought of John the Baptist of all people.....
Although I don´t think that matters to the story, but it´s nice to share that weird moment. And let me add that I hope I will not undergo his faith, ending up with my head on a plate...
Anyway, faith and accepting it as the unseen, unknown force that drives us is a concept I embraced more and more since that really dark empowering moment...or rather those gloomy empowering events, because there was more than one.
Whenever I was made to walk through that sea of fire naked, I came out on the other side. Not only stronger, but with that strange feeling that I just took another step on the right track.
The push life needs to give you sometimes to overcome that fear and take that step is painful, definitely not a leap of faith. Life likes to push you in a corner, against the ropes, and keeps hitting you till you are about to give up...and then you make a feint and pass the temporary adversary.
What happens next is insane, it´s a blur in which you leave that moment behind at a speed beyond light, and you find yourself in a whole new place, like Alice did when she ate the cookies...that actually were no cookies.
Those moves, those moments, grew my understanding that life flows, and I have no control over that flow, but need to accept it does and have faith that it will not flow me off a cliff.
Next Chapter Coming in Two Days
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