Thoughts After the Election

Did you, like me, support a losing candidate? Look out the window. Is the sun shining? Whether or not it is shining where you are at this moment, do you believe it would shine with more or less intensity if the outcome of the election had been different? If you cannot see the sunlight, is that because the Source has been extinguished, or because something is blocking its way to you?

Like the sun, the pristine brilliance of Spirit shines in your soul with the same glow of love and compassion as it did at this time yesterday, and last year, and as it will throughout all time. You are still an incorruptible manifestation of the fundamental Universal energy -- and so is every candidate, every voter, and every other being on the planet.

It is easy to fall into the belief that a particular result external to myself will make me happy, will make everything all right; or conversely, that an undesired result will ruin my life or at least make it less enjoyable. The fact is that the quest for happiness begins and ends within myself. I am responsible for my own state of mind. My task is to find the opportunity concealed within the event, to increase my learning, my understanding of Spirit, and to bring myself closer to God.