When we see an event which seems to be so dark and evil that we are led to believe that 'God' is not in that event, we have not yet understood that the darkness is not an absence of light but a denial of light.

You are not a victim of your world, no matter how sorry for yourself you feel; you are very much in control of your own life.

The trouble is that most of us are controlling our lives without being aware of the fact. Negativity is not inflicted on you. You own it. It is part of your karmic CHALLENGE to see whether you will choose love or fear.

Some of us want to see only the light and avoid the dark as if it doesn't exist. This is one way of trying to avoid the darkness in our world and it behoves you to see the opportunity in that darkness to bring you and your brother's home.

At a human level, all illness, poverty, famine, war etc. are hindrances. At a real, or spiritual level they are opportunities. They are opportunities to learn.

At any time you can learn who and what you really are and if you truly know that, not through intellectual concepts, but through direct, personal experience, you will be absolutely fearless. Once fear goes, there can be no suffering. As we are focused within the perceptive illusion of the manifested world we think it is the other way round.

We move to the movie screen of our lives and try to alter the seemingly real shadows in order to stop suffering. What we should be doing is turning inside to the projector, the creative light within, if we wish to alter events.

The understanding that this physical world is a TRANSIENT place where you choose to come, because this is what you have selected in order to take responsibility for your rightful share of creativity, would have an enormous effect on our conditioned attitudes of greed, power and indifference.

Anyway, if we fail to do this ourselves and lose the opportunity, just watch the children. Those children of God who are being born these days, and their children, will throw out the old, dark ways and their creations will be felt throughout the Universe.

And do you know what? They are really here because they don't want to miss the fun!