After a problem,
wait for more

“Every cloud has a silver lining” so says a popular proverb; this is the hope that gives enthusiasm to those who suffer with the difficulties and stumbles of life.

André Luiz (Spirit), in his book Sinal Verde (Green Light), psychographed by Francisco Cândido Xavier, proposes a very different thinking: “After a problem, wait for more”, an idea that has at least the merit of being more coherent with the reality of things.

Actually, life is a sequence of difficulties. Sometimes we haven’t even overcome an obstacle or a vicissitude, and there comes another one. It means that, although we should never lose our hope, we aren’t supposed to think that the existence will be a bed of roses from tomorrow on, because this quality is hardly the mark of the experiences faced by mankind in the world we live in. The reasons are described in the lines below.

The reader may know the idiom “a bless in disguise”. So, based on Spiritist teachings, we can say that all bad things, or at least the majority of them, come for our own benefit, showing then a different face of something that effectively disturbs the human being.

What happens is that many of the things we judge as being bad are like this just in appearance. If we change the perspective, other order of ideas arises and the individual can see that the blessing fruits in the least probable places. It’s this way that a certain situation will receive analysis diametrically different from a materialistic person and a Spiritist.

 “The clear and precise idea which can be formed of a future life – wrote Kardec in the Gospel According to the Spiritism, chapter II, item 5 – provides an unshakable faith in what is to come. This faith places enormous consequences upon the moralization of mankind”. For one that cultivates a spiritual life, the corporeal existence is nothing but a passage, a quick season in an unthankful country. The tribulations faced are incidents received with patience, because they are temporary and followed by a happier situation. Death isn’t anything scary, because it doesn’t represents the break of social links but the freedom from chains that used to cage the individual in the valley of tears, which are planets like ours.

Obviously, thinking this way, concerns are received with more resignation, bringing tranquility and peace of mind that attenuates all bitternesses.

Therefore, in this sense, André Luiz is right. After a problem, wait for more – because such a thing we judge as being problem is generally a solution – and it’s also why the idiom “a bless in disguise” has an unquestionable value, given that if the so-called bad things promote progress, the result is a benefit and not a harm.