The clouds seemed to be surrounding the moon –
the moon, full of light, so bright, and yet . . .
it looked as if it might be covered by those clouds
—blotted out, hidden, no longer seen . . .
a mystery waiting to be revealed.
Will the moon overcome the clouds or
be drawn into and consumed by the darkness?

As she looked up to the sky,
her heart felt the fear of those clouds –
her life seemed to be shown in that “battle” above her head.
Light, such bright Light trying to shine in the darkness but …

Madness . . . that is how she would describe it –
from a word meaning “foolish, vain, boastful,”
or “crippled, wounded” and
she felt deeply the crippled and wounded part.
Yes, and much of her life was spent being foolish and
sounding boastful as she tried to hide her woundedness,
to bury the crippling effects of her past so no one else
could see and she could pretend to not be scarred at all
by the battle between light and dark
in her world . . . in her heart . . . in her mind.

Watching the moon and the clouds battling for control,
dominance of one over the other,
she hoped the moon would “win” and
live to shine another day as its light
gave her a glimmer of hope
for her own “win” over the darkness
that had for so long controlled her choices and
led her into many dark pits.
Was it more madness to hope for a “win” after so many defeats?

The mystery would be “how” –
how could a soul that had chosen
to listen to the voices of darkness for so long
expect the Light to come and dispel the darkness,
to shine so bright that the darkness would be banished
and leave no trace of its ever having been there.

Does it really come down to a choice for today –
a choice for Light that, like the choices she made
for darkness in her past,
would draw Light to rule over her world today,
make Light overcome the walls she had built up,
cause Light to defeat the darkness she had served
when she thought she had no choice
driven along by her belief that she really was
everything the darkness told her she was?

Madness . . . yes!
But she felt it – that tiny spark of hope that whispered
“you have a choice” –
“you can choose to walk in the Light today” –
somehow she seemed to “know” that all those yesterdays,
all those bad choices
were good for knowing what she did not want to do in the future.

Yes, even her walk in the darkness had a good purpose.
Maybe not the best way to learn,
but for sure she would not forget easily the lessons there
and she would not be tempted again to embrace defeat or darkness.

Madness? No!
Truth unwrapped in the Light,
showing that Truth is the Light—
and she has a choice – today.
That is truly a mystery!
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P.S. the moon always wins –
it is always shining and
the darkness always
is driven away by the Light!!!

Embrace the moonlight
mystery madness –
in the “battles” of Life, Light wins –
it may not sound logical, but it works!!!