The Battle Between Light And Dark Forces

I truly believe there are light and dark forces on this planet constantly battling each other. There are those we can see with our eyes, such as people blessing and loving each other and people fighting and killing each other. But I also believe there are those we can’t see with our eyes, that are beyond sight, that vie for control of each and every person on Earth.

Some might say that battle for control is between angels and demons, while others might say it’s between beings of light and beings of dark, and then there are even those who might say it’s between good energy and bad energy. Well you get the point I’m sure.

I only say all this because I find the more I become a positive person, the more I move farther away from old toxic behaviors, and the more I seek God in every facet of my life, the more it seems as if there’s some unseen movement behind the scenes that tries to trip me up and get me to move backwards into any of my old habits.

Take last night for example. I had just been through a very exhausting conversation with my partner about the status of our relationship and was feeling extremely overwhelmed by the chasm I felt existed between us. Shortly thereafter my phone rang and I received a drunken phone call from someone who I find somewhat attractive and who finds me the same. For the next thirty minutes they attempted to pull at every one of my heart strings to get me to come over and “be with them” for comfort.

This isn’t the first time this has happened to me since undertaking my adventure to become a more spiritual person. I’ve had people from my addictive past suddenly rematerialize and want to reconnect. I’ve had many do more than just flirt with me both in person and online. I’ve been offered alcohol, drugs, and various other stimulants in key moments when I felt at my weakest. Yet through all of it, I’ve stayed connected to God and resisted each and every thing.

My theory is that when we are doing bad things, lower vibrational things, unloving things in this world, that the dark forces don’t care about us, because they already have us in their grips. Yet, when that no longer feels right to our soul, and we begin to move away from all that blackness, those dark forces sense it somehow and begin to throw one thing after another at us, trying to keep us from moving towards the light.

Over the past year, I’ve had more of this happen to me than any other time of my life, and I fully believe that’s because I’m no longer desiring to live or partake in the darkness of this world and it desperately wants me back. Because you see when I lived in all that darkness, I created a lot of chaos, destruction, and pain for myself and so many others. But now, I’m doing everything I can to do the reverse, to be a beacon of light and hope to the world and I don’t think those dark forces like it one bit.

Nevertheless, I’m sure some are going to read this and say it’s bullshit and that I’ve created all of this in my head. If you are one of those who feel this way, then I ask you to try this exercise. Take one month out of your life and do everything you can to be more loving, kind, and caring. If that’s too long, take one week, or even one day for that matter. I venture to say that if you do even just that, there will be things thrown your way during however much time you dedicate to it, that try to trip you up and send you back in the other direction, to a place where you live more in selfishness than in anything else. It took me several decades to realize this, and well a bunch of lifetimes too, but that’s a topic for another blog entry altogether.

Regardless, I’m convinced there are light and dark forces in this world that are unseen and often do battle for each and every one of us. So if you are someone who seems to have bad things happen to you often or if you are one of those who get temptations thrown your way a lot, then take it as a good thing, because the darkness is probably just trying to win you back. And all you need to do is keep looking Higher and know that alone will keep you in the Light…

Peace, love, light and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson

Waiting, Waiting, And More Waiting On God…

In a few weeks, I’ll be 44 years old and yet I feel like I’ve lived for far longer. What I’ve endured, what I’ve seen, what I’ve done, and how I’ve lived seems to have filled the shoes of multiple lives for multiple people. Yet, somehow, it’s only been 44 years where I’ve experienced as much as I have.

So is there a reason why I’ve experienced as much as I have in such a short period of time? Has God brought me through as much as I have for some greater purpose that I just don’t know about yet? Or am I just living in some crazy illusion, waiting for something to happen that’s never going to materialize?

I know so many people believe that we just need to go out there and create our own future, that we just need to figure it all out on our own, but I’m not so sure of that. I tried that through most of my 44 years of existence and other than enjoying moments where I was living it up through plenty of self-indulgence, I came up with nothing, other than a lot of misery, dead-ends, loneliness, and many painful experiences.

What if it’s really all about teamwork with God?

What if there’s times of waiting on God and times of acting for God?

I’m going to speak specifically on those times of waiting though.

What if those times of waiting are often unheeded by us because we’re so dam impatient? Isn’t that the human condition? Things don’t come fast enough or in the way our mind’s want, so we go out there and try to make it happen in the way we think things should be. I can’t speak for anyone else on this, but I sure do know for myself that I’ve never found success following this pattern of thinking.

So I’ve been waiting, and waiting, and waiting. Waiting on my health to improve. Waiting on God for the next step because I don’t see it yet. And I do believe that God will show me it when it’s time and when I’m ready for it. But in the meantime, my ego has been screaming at me, friends have been telling me I’m insane, some have even gone so far as saying that God’s probably waiting on me to take action.

The truth is…I really don’t know if I’m making the right choice to keep waiting. What I do know though is that waiting is an action, it’s just not one many people take on this planet, especially when it comes to God. Regardless, some part of me says it’s what I must keep on doing. That I must keep on doing what I’m doing to heal, to grow more spiritual, to love more unconditionally, to be like Christ, body, mind, and soul. Maybe all of what I am doing are the actions that God wants me to be doing? Maybe it’s just my ego that says there needs to be more, just because it’s not happy where my life is at in the present moment.

Nevertheless, there are many known spiritual figures throughout history who also took a similar path of waiting by just working on their spiritual health and spiritual condition and eventually found themselves on the greater path they were always meant to be on. So on some level, I’m trying to follow in their shoes.

I think that’s a good thing because I’m truly quite different today from who I once was, as the old me would have given up on waiting on God long ago. But I’m not that person anymore. I’m something different. I’m someone different. I just don’t know yet who that is and who I’m becoming, yet I believe it’s a far better person than I ever could have been by continuing to take action after action that my ego led me to take.

So as I continue to wait upon God, I wait for guidance and direction. I wait because I know what not waiting did for me. I wait because I know what going out there and doing what I think I need to do did for me. I wait because somewhere within me, deep within me, is a yearning, for something greater, something that I believe will only come through waiting, waiting on God…and sometimes I think that’s the hardest task any of us will ever face in life…

Peace, love, light, and joy,

Andrew Arthur Dawson