I am the light

     I once believed that being good, doing good, helping others, would make me a good person. I found that doing all these good deeds never made me good at all! It frustrated me!! I would do all these good deeds and I still was the same. I saw others do far less and advance much farther than me. I saw others benefit and never lift a finger for anyone else! I questioned myself. All the good deeds I do for what? I still am the same person; I still am in the same place going round and round. Nothing gained but a few good deeds that make me feel resentful!

      Then one day, I found a book. In it, it talked about a moth attracted to a flame. Round and round the moth flew around the flame until the moth burnt up in the flame. It got to close and died. So I thought. The moth was so attracted to the flame it became the flame. At that moment the moth was no longer a moth but it became the flame.

      I was so intent on doing good, helping others, doing good deeds I became the opposite. My failure was not on doing good deeds it was on expecting the good deeds to make me good! All one needs is to be the flame! I wanted to be good, I wanted to feel good and all I needed to do was to make a decision to be good, feel the good in me. Immerse myself in goodness that I am!

      I’ve been told my whole life that God is in us all, that I need to trust in God for all things. I still believe this. Only now, I’ve begun to make decisions that lead me to my goals fulfilled, my daily routines to give me results I want. My dreams are coming true day by day. Because of one simple fact; That God is my light and I have the ability to create my life and everything in it exactly the way I want it to be. I must trust that no matter how bright the light I go around, no harm will ever come because I am the light!!!