{"id":3780,"date":"2014-12-22T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2014-12-21T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T04:16:56","slug":"how-to-change-the-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2014\/12\/how-to-change-the-world-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Give Yourself to the Living Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We must no longer agree to do the dark will that wants us to be its person. We must want, and put first, the will of what is Light and right for ourselves and everyone else around us. This means we must wake up, come aware, and see what kind of being it is that we express in the moment &#8212; and right then and there, dare to defy and drop any dark state that wants its expression through us.<\/p>\n<p>This higher willingness to drop dark states, coupled with our new awareness that nothing real can stop us from working at this, is the first stirring of the living Light that already dwells within us. But we must give our lives to this Light if we wish for it to become our own. This sacrifice of self is the wish of the Light since time began.<\/p>\n<p>One last thought: If we will make it our intention to bring this Light into every corner of ourselves, and not flinch when what is dark reveals it has made a home for itself therein, then we and our world will soon be filled with Light. This is Truth\u2019s promise. 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