Tripping

I tend to get this semi-panic calls from my tenants more time than I will like to acknowledge. It goes like this ‘all my lights have suddenly gone off, there is no power in the socket, no power in the house at all, send someone right away’ other times it will be ‘all the sockets have gone off’ or ‘all the lights on the top floor are gone’ or some other variant of these. Long and short there is a loss of power and the tenant wants it sorted out without delay. I will usually ask ‘Have you checked the Consumer Unit? ‘Are all the switches up?’ And I will get a blank, 9 times out of 10, they haven’t check, some don’t even know where the Consumer Unit is, they just want an Electrician sent out immediately. It becomes my job, to tell them where the consumer unit is, how to check the switches, see if any is down, which one it is and go through a process of elimination to identify the culprit. Everything has to be switched off in the house and reintroduced one at a time to find out the bad egg, the Achan in the group. The culprit tend to be the kettle, iron, microwave, washing machine or something that the tenant brought in the house, once this has been isolated, the tripping stops and light is restored.

Our whole being or sometimes part can be cast into darkness, something has tripped off the light in our soul and we are unaware, unconscious and we just carry on stumbling from one thing to another, other times we know but we have no idea where the ‘Consumer Unit’ of our life is. We don’t know how to check the switches, how to work out what is tripping and to isolate and eliminate it. Other times we are just too lazy, not prepared to take the time to check, we need the ‘landlord’ to come and sort it out. We don’t understand that it might be something we brought into our life, a person we allowed, we might even be the culprit with our thoughts, desires, actions, beliefs etc. Whatever the case maybe, we are tripping and need to be sorted out. Life can not be lived effectively in darkness. Let’s stay in tune with ourselves and check in on our being, if there is darkness, stop and purge out the Achan. Let the person go, stop the action or activity, change the thought process, get the electrican in, if you must, etc. Unto light we have been called, let us live in the light.

Set the light!