The plant in the dark needed to be brought into the light.

It had become weak and spindly. The leaves were getting yellow….no sunlight to photosynthesize into green. (starting to look a bit jaundiced!)

I moved it to a northern window (that was the only natural light available) and it gradually began to regain its color and strength. It needed the sun to strengthen it!

Is this the same with us? We hole up in our offices or homes working, working, working…too busy to get some sunshine and we wonder why we’re down in the mulley-grubs so often.

Sometimes we’re with others who can’t see one good thing about life, and it starts to turn our leaves yellow. We need to get away into some positive sunshine!

Or our own lives are filled with lots of darkness, perhaps a season we’re facing, and we need to get sunshined upon….lots of it!

Sunshine comes in other ways than from the sun itself. Often it comes from reflections of the sun.

Here are some ways to get additional sunshine:

• Look at something beautiful. That’s it! Just look!
• Look at the yellow marigold.
• Look at the bluebird’s feathers…real or in a picture book
• Look at water flowing down the creek over colorful rocks
• Look at a baby animal trying to walk

OR

• Head out to a cute coffee shop for a change of scenery
• Take a walk and smile at people
• Help somebody with something…anything…just help somebody (doesn’t have to be much)
• Take a class at the YMCA
• Start a new hobby/like/project
• Get around others who are moving forward, doing good things

If whatever you’re around is not reflecting sunshine back to you, If it is instead absorbing all of yours; you need to change windows and get back into the sunshine.

Don’t starve yourself of sunlight. There’s plenty to go around…it will not run out!

Where do I need to go to get more sunshine in my life today?…right now…