It is not about having an end in sight, but being able to see hope where you are.
I said this to a dear friend of mine as she spoke to me of current challenges and struggles she is both enduring and embracing. I wish I could claim ownership of such an epiphany, but truly such belongs to her and the wisdom her life’s path imparts upon all those willing to listen to her story. I merely put into words, the emotion, passion, and depth her own stories continually reveal to me. Take this moment to think of an individual who truly aides you in this life, an individual who both inspires and humbles you, who continually reminds you of the good that exists in the world, and humbles your own faith through his or her unshakable perseverance.
We are blessed to know one another, to walk hand in hand. Each fellow man, woman, and child is a testament to that fact that God has not left us alone. The struggle is to be shared as are the fruits of all that is yet to come.
“I hope that the lights of the Sun of Reality will illumine the whole world so that no strife and warfare, no battles and bloodshed remain. May fanaticism and religious bigotry be unknown, all humanity enter the bond of brotherhood, souls consort in perfect agreement, the 13 nations of earth at last hoist the banner of truth and the religions of the world enter the divine temple of oneness, for the foundations of the heavenly religions are one reality. Reality is not divisible; it does not admit multiplicity. All the holy Manifestations of God have proclaimed and promulgated the same reality. They have summoned mankind to reality itself and reality is one. The clouds and mists of imitations have obscured the Sun of Truth. We must forsake these imitations, dispel these clouds and mists and free the Sun from the darkness of superstition. Then will the Sun of Truth shine most gloriously; then all the inhabitants of the world will be united, the religions will be one, sects and denominations will reconcile, all nationalities will flow together in the recognition of one fatherhood and all degrees of humankind gather in the shelter of the same tabernacle, under the same banner.”
(Abdu’l-Baha, Foundations of World Unity, p. 12)
