Sooner or later, I think most of us ask this question. If you are a light worker, it is often easy to get discouraged when you watch the news every day, and you see only sadness, pain and horrible news reports. We live in a reality where duality often feels extreme. As much as we want to be positive and share our light with others, does it really make that much of a difference? The Universe is just so big! And we are so tiny in the bigger picture of things. Doesn’t the light that we share just get drowned out by all the bad stuff?
No, actually, it doesn’t. I asked Spirit this same question once when I felt blue about the state of things and not very confident about my own contribution. Spirit told me that we are actually not here to change everything because that would be way too much to expect. We are here to make a difference wherever we can, but we also have to honor people’s free will in the matter. Therefore, we are here mostly to provide people an opportunity to expand. And, if people choose not to, you still did your part!
Now this is a totally different perspective than what we normally experience in this dimension. Here, if someone tells you to do a job, they want to see the job completed. But this is not so on the other side. You do your part, and what happens next is not in your hands! Sometimes, all we can do is sow seeds that will start to grow weeks, months or even years later! So we may never actually see the results of all the good work we did! But that doesn’t mean that we didn’t make a difference!
Spirit also told me that one of our problems is that our life spans are so short. In one lifetime, we may not be able to see the fruits of our efforts, but from their perspective, they can see the effect of every little thing we did or said. We have to remember, that everything is connected to Source energy, and that for every action there is a reaction or effect. Big or small doesn’t matter…
What this means is that just your being, or your frequency alone can affect the whole. Meditating in your room, sharing your joy with someone, creating something beautiful, helping someone, healing someone… These are all actions that can affect the whole. We just have to remember that we can’t always see the effect from our perspective. This is why we need to have faith!
So, there is no need to be depressed about the state of things, because depression is a low frequency that will simply add to the problem and help no one. People learn through suffering, and everyone has their own path to walk, so we are not here to eliminate suffering from people who need it as a contrast that helps them grow. A better approach would be to allow people to walk their own path and make their own mistakes, and to just be there for them if or when we are needed.
So, we have to choose to believe that we are making a difference every day in every way, and then have faith, that even if we can’t see the physical manifestation of that, it is still happening on some level. Our job as light workers is simply to shine our light as bright as we can.
Esther Hicks often says: “Don’t get stuck in reality. Work towards what you want, not what is.” And, that just about sums it up…