Guiding Light

Cloaked in shadow, a woman braves the gloom bearing a lamp. A single bright point piercing the benighted wood. Nocturnal noises recede before her measured stride. Her light, dim but steady, signals through the tangled trees, bidding you follow if lost. You strayed from the path chasing feverish dreams or fleeing imagined demons. But beneficent guides walk these woods, initiating searches when souls go astray. If you call from the heart, help arrives cloaked in unlikely forms.

You need not understand the stranger’s motives, only that her lantern offers sympathetic passage from the wilds back to community’s warm hearth. Doubt and pride urge you to find your own way. Rejecting assistance can lead to disaster. She sees what you cannot alone. Put faith in her wisdom, else remain ensnared. By keeping worries of past and future at bay, you will absorb intuitions guiding each steady footfall. Focus only on the glowing orb bobbing through the gloom. Its light suffices to show the next few steps. The rest will unfold in time.

Your desperate mind conjures monsters lurking behind every tree, but your saviour’s tranquility belies this. In her presence, worldly fears fade. You sense only an abiding care for each lost soul. Her kindness kindles untroubled courage. At journey’s end, gratitude spurs you to pay her kindness forward. When next someone strays from the path, haunted by inner ghosts, let remembrance of your guide stir you to extend the same compassion. Become the light that leads others home.

For a time drift in the darkness, yet keep faith that illumination will come. Then, whenever you need, call from the heart and someone will answer. “Help is on its way”, you will hear in response. Trust that it is only a moment away – even when you are utterly lost and surrounded by the shroud of uncertainty. A lantern will pierce the gloom, cutting through souls’ starless night. You will find the path again together and continue on your journey in peace and safety.