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contrast is the gift.

the heart breaks in two ways: now you know that you can hold big and bad just as you can hold big and good. first, they showed you what love was by showing you what love isn’t. then they showed you what love was by showing you what love is. this is because you have to be able to see through the illusion before the truth can be revealed.

and now that you can hold all that happened (love, after all, is a mystery, in all forms, in and of itself) the miracle can come. you can now ask the universe to bring it to you, your ultimate desire. “universe, bring me the good. i’m ready.”

what is abundance, anyway? it’s to have what you need while not needing what you have; having what you want and wanting what you have. and what is certainty? it’s knowing that any void that is created must one day be filled. the void, the empty, is the space that the light of your blessings need to be able to come in.

think about your dreams. do you think they would have been created the same day you receive them? no. just like you, they started from seed and needed time and nurture to mature and thrive. so they are already here. they exist right now. and they will flow into your reality when you’ve made enough room (tolerated the void) and adjusted your vision (believed before seeing) and softened the urgency of ego.

we don’t know the future until it’s present; clarity of faith is how blind men see.