There’s something many people are feeling right now, and it doesn’t feel great, but I wouldn’t like for anyone to misread it as a sign that something’s gone wrong.

A lot of us feel squeezed. Tight. Confronted. Like we’re in the middle of something difficult and we can’t quite name it. Maybe we’re blaming it on the economy or the difficulties in the world, but it’s actually something going on in our consciousness.

Here’s what I’d like you to know.

You’re not failing. You’re being born.

There are seasons, individually and collectively, when we’re birthing ourselves into a new experience, a new understanding of who we truly are. And birth, as beautiful as it is, is rarely tidy.

I’ve never given birth, but I was present when my goddaughter was born. I watched a precious life come through that birth canal, and it was beautiful and holy and also messy, arduous, and intensely challenging.

Sometimes in labor, a woman will say, “No. I’m done pushing. I’m tired. You figure something else out.” And the baby is right there in the middle of the passage.

That’s how this can feel. Like we’re partway through and we want to stop.

Still, we’re in the middle of something glorious happening.

For years I’ve described a particular kind of living. Imagine living in a semi-dark room, where you haven’t been cleaning up your act. You’ve been a little haphazard, a little of this, a little of that. You’ve been stuffing hurt and anger into the closets and under the bed.

Maybe there are some habits around. Maybe you like to self-medicate to escape how you feel.

I want to say this clearly: please don’t judge yourself for that. It’s part of almost everyone’s journey. I used to do it too. Judging yourself doesn’t make it better. It never has.

A lot of spiritual students self-medicate quietly, in private, at home, because they don’t want anyone to know. I understand that completely.

So what’s happening now, in this discomfort so many are feeling?

More and more Light is dawning in our awareness. More people are practicing more deeply. Global peace is a conversation happening everywhere. The wars we’re seeing are the last gasps of the old ways. And as the Light pours in, it does what Light does.

It reveals our stuff.

It shows us what we’ve been hiding under the bed, in the closets, in the drawers. Suddenly it’s not hidden anymore, and we’re being invited to look at it.

That feeling of difficulty? That’s actually our Higher Holy Spirit Self assisting us, making it uncomfortable to keep resting in the same old place of suffering and darkness.

We’re going through the birth canal. It’s dark and tight and not easy. We’re coming out into the Light, into a whole new way of being.

So I’d like to gently invite you to look at your own life. Where is this happening for you?

And here’s the good news. This isn’t something we have to white-knuckle alone.

This kind of mind-healing, this willingness to let the Light reveal what’s been hidden so we can finally heal our mind, is the work I love most. It’s exactly what we do, week by week, in community, how to walk through the undoing without judging ourselves, and how to come out the other side free, liberated.

This what shifted me from feeling like life was happening TO me to truly loving my life.

You don’t have to clean it all up first. You don’t have to have it figured out.

You just have to be willing to look, and to be gentle with yourself while you do.

The Light isn’t here to expose us. It’s what we are. We are the Light.

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LATEST PODCAST EPISODE: Mark Anthony Lord: The Work That Heals Us Mark Anthony Lord and I met as practitioners in training in 1999, and we’ve walked the same path ever since: prayer practitioner training, becoming ministers, starting our own ministries, learning to counsel and to train counselors. We each came up through a dark night first. What we keep marveling at is that the work itself is what healed us, and that A Course in Miracles met us at every turn. We go all the way back to the beginning here, and we don’t tidy it up.