The mythical story tells of an Angel, Lucifer, who was the head honcho angel in heaven. The Angel of Light. But Lucifer rebelled against God, was cast out of heaven, and became known as The Devil, Satan. A symbol of darkness, chaos and evil.

As God created Lucifer in the first place, we can reasonably conclude that everything - Darkness, and Light, Goodness and Evil, Chaos and Order - originated from God. And as God, in this particular story, has no beginning and no end, then all of these features of life, are also without beginning or end. They stand outside of time.

I often find myself intentionally looking for the beauty and wonder of life, because my own inherently developed tendency has been to see the ugly harshness of life. It has helped me to gain some balance.

But in truth, The Truth, is that our every experience and perception is a part of the whole. The truth is that the universe, my own consciousness even, when all the layers are peeled away, accepts everything that arises without judgement. Those things we call good and those we call bad.

Like An Angel, I can choose to smile and accept, or I can rebel and fight against everything that already is. But real, freedom can only come, has only ever come in my experience, from accepting the fundamental truth of everything that comes my way.

It’s all “God”.