Transforming Darkness (KB)

One person may enjoy health; another person may enjoy happiness; another, wealth; and yet another, power. But in every single human being, there is a part that holds darkness. It is this darkness that gives us the opportunity to do what the kabbalists call our tikkun—the process of correction in which we can overcome that part of us that is negative. The Creator never promised that we wouldn’t have chaos in our lives. There was never a guarantee that we wouldn’t lose someone dear to us, never a promise that life would be one big party. That is not why we incarnated as we are. We incarnated so that we could take the chaos, and through our effort, action, and consciousness, transform it into something positive. We have the problems we do and we are in the situations we are in because we've done something, whether in this lifetime or a prior lifetime, that put us in that situation. If we have faith in our spirituality, then we will come to understand that no matter what is before us, we can be certain it is there for a reason: to help us cleanse a karmic debt, transform an aspect of ourselves, or grow towards our potential.