Opportunities are knocking all around us, but we must see them, and seize them. Sometimes the darkest times present the greatest opportunities, and sometimes success is born out of failure. If you score 30 out of 100, you do not have to learn the 30% over again in order to pass, you must only learn the 70% that you did not know. It is the proverbial question of whether we see the glass as half-empty or half-full. If I curse the darkness while I am in the darkness, do I not also curse myself? If I bless and embrace the sparks of light that I see while in the darkness, does not my accumulation of light bring me out of the darkness?
Are we so busy cursing the darkness that we have lost our ability to hear opportunity knocking? Long ago, opportunity knocked in the darkness and someone answered the door and let in the light. With the discovery of the candlelight, the light bulb, etc., we now have light where there used to be utter physical darkness. Wherever there is darkness, opportunity is knocking.
With the harnessing of solar energy, laser light, and more, we are still bringing light into our physical darkness, but we are still at a loss when it comes to bringing light into our mental, emotional, and spiritual darkness. Though it may not seem to be the case, there are still sparks of light in the world which, if brought together, would create a bonfire of such proportion that the earth and the sky would be illuminated. People of all faiths and religions have come to embrace Jesus’ declaration that we are ‘the light of the world.’ Opportunity is knocking in the darkness! If we discipline ourselves for success, and embrace the light and the love of God, we may discover that there is a whole new world waiting to unfold before us.