You deserve to feel joy. You can’t just focus on the pain. There are good people in the world. All these are true. HOWEVER, I caution you not to use these statements to “make you feel better.” Because they don’t. They trick you into thinking you feel better.
Thinking about “bad” things does not attract more bad things to your life and focusing on “good” things doesn’t attract more good. That isn’t how it works. You are indeed important to the universe, and when you are working with the creative force of the universe that runs through you- it’s never about you. The divine creative energy is not going to save you from anything. Or make you lots of money. Or protect you from illness. That’s not how it works because you don’t overpower divinity. You cannot think your co-creation into existence. You become an instrument of the creation by feeling out the instructions you receive.
All good things are not coming. The universe IS conspiring with you, just not FOR you. We know this is true because otherwise every parent that has ever held the hand of their child as life escaped them would have had the power to heal them with their Love. We are alchemists. But, we do not control the universe.
I understand that as we persist as Love (because that is what we are always) “despite all evidence to the contrary” things are going to feel scary. Our persistence can manifest in ways that feel very opposite to Love. And, I beg you to have enough courage to look deeply into the eyes of hate and tell me what you see there.
What we need to cultivate is the capacity to maintain our faith in humanity while holding all the pain. While holding us accountable. To need no reminder there are good people because we recognize that good people are also the same as people who cause harm. And we are them.
To hold our grief and gratitude simultaneously is the golden ticket of the human experience- please don’t waste it. I just really don’t want you to miss the full experience of being human trying to feel better. When feeling more is what really gets you there.