There is nothing greater in the universe than our suffering. We answer our suffering in one of three ways: We ache, me, me, me; we become aggressive and blame others, you, you, you; or we distract ourselves by imagining a better future when God will save us. We let our pain be our guide and look to it to free us from our suffering. We know the effect of suffering but we don't understand it.
There has to be a radical change in how we see the world. We have to make what is now invisible to us, visible in order to understand the working principles necessary to have a relationship with what is above us. Until we stop seeing life through our states there can be no good outcome. We do not have to be in relationship with what our mind says is the cause of our suffering.
Once there was a lessor kingdom that hadn't learned all the lessons necessary to be a kingdom of the light. In this kingdom at any moment the enemy could appear. The Governor sent word to the good King asking for help. The King sent a great wizard to help the little kingdom. The wizard gave the people something to say that needed to become a part of their heart and mind.
"Not with your eyes, but with my own shall I see who is my true friend and who is my enemy."
We don't see with our own true eyes. We see with a nature that betrays us. We always see what we need to justify our negative states. We don't see with our eyes but the eyes of the inward enemy we listen to. The pain we feel is due to the relationship we have agreed to within ourselves. We find what justifies and makes our negative states real. We try to isolate ourselves from a predator we have given power to. When we begin to see through our own eyes, we will know what is true and what is our enemy. In our wish to understand the pain, darkness, negative states we are bringing our suffering into something greater than it is. What is greater than the pain is our awareness of it, our willingness to step back and see the truth of it and to no longer accept any of its conclusions.
If we come up with a reason for the pain, we can no longer be free from it. Suspend the eyes of darkness by bring your awareness into the moment. Let God's consciousness become your own. Let the process work out its own perfection in you.