Just as a ship lost at sea must make a course correction if it hopes to reach a safe harbor, so must the aspirant be willing to be corrected by life for there to be any hope of sighting heaven's shore. And it isn't really so much that life itself corrects us as it is that it serves to reveal us to ourselves. When it does, the choice is ours whether to be self-correcting or deflect the light of revelation that calls for us to change. And when we consider that there can be no real correction without this light shining within us, then -- in some strange and mysterious way -- its action must be part of our perfection process.
This is why refusing correction -- the rejection of any moment that shows us the need to let go of who and what we've been up until that moment -- is the same as refusing the invitation to realize a conscious relationship with one's immortal Self. After all, what else is the illumination of any dark, limiting state within us if not an invitation -- by the same light that reveals it -- to outgrow the parts of us that have agreed to give it a home?
Each time we let go and grow in this way, it isn't so much that we have learned something new as it is we've agreed to be made whole. With each correction that we can see needs to be made -- and that we then agree to make within us -- our heart and mind are brought into a new relationship with the light that reveals this need. In this way we not only join ourselves to the light, but it unites us. We are made holy. Welcome correction; choose to be teachable. If the light can't touch you, it can't show you the wholeness of your immortal Self.
Key Lesson: We are never closer to realizing the next level of our own higher possibilities than when, by the light of a new awareness, we see some old darkness within us and then agree that we can no longer be what we have been.
