Do you ever get in a moment (or several moments) where you can’t think of anything to say, do or write?

Rather than stew about what to do, just do something/anything to get the thoughts moving. One of the best ways for me is to focus on somebody else’s life and think how I could help them, what I could make/bake/take/send to them.

All of a sudden, my mind is filled with ideas…I hardly know where to start. Really it is a lot of fun thinking, then doing something you know will be helpful to somebody else.  The pressure is off, my mind is more at ease.

We are made to help others while we take care of ourselves, and as we do that, life just seems to go a little easier.

Today, look around and see who needs what we can help them with.

Yesterday has come and gone.

Don’t try to get by on yesterday’s beauty…create something fresh and new today!

Every time you turn on the light, you are pushing back darkness. Why do I need to know this?

The world is so thankful for the lightbulb invention. We are almost totally dependent upon it. We need light to see! To see to iron our shirts, which nobody does anymore, to see what our hair looks like in the morning, or not :/, to see where to drive at night, to walk in big stores with no windows,

There are two types of darkness, basically. One taken care of by lightbulbs, the other takes a different kind of illumination. It’s a darkness inside of us that nobody can see with their eyes and often the person who is dark inside cannot see it either. But it is a darkness that can be felt somehow. You can feel it inside when it tries to come upon you, you can feel it when you’re around those covered by it.

Our job is to push back against that darkness. People need to see. People want to see. It only takes a crack of light to begin pushing back the dark.

Dark prevents you from seeing. Light enables you to see.

So how am I going to push back the dark?

I think light begins to shine in many different ways. We shine light and push back darkness through an encouraging word, a simple smile, a card or letter, helping them with a difficult project, dropping off a loaf of bread or pot of soup. You probably have a list of ideas too 🙂

When we help push back the dark, the gloom, uncertainties, confusion, despair, helplessness in others lives, it will also push back any darkness trying to encroach on us.

It sounds so simple, it can’t be that easy. But it really is. We humans tend to make things harder than they are.

So there it is. We push back dark with light.

Where am I seeing darkness I can shine some light on and help that person see more clearly?