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Starved for Sunlight

Jennifred Jones

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…

Yellow = Sunshine!

Jennifred Jones

We had a pretty decent winter up until February this year.

Then it got dark, snowy, icy and cold!

Spring is moving into the department stores now, and yellow has never looked so good!!

I saw a lady at Target…her cart filled with yellowy-gold towels, bath mats and matching accessories—looked like a cart full of sunshine roaming around the store. I wanted to tell her that, but she turned down another aisle before I could meet her.

My granddaughter’s favorite color is yellow, mine have been blues, purples and greens. But this year, my new favorite color just might be yellow. What colors light up your life?

We all need a little sunshine!

Focused Inward? Focus Outward!

Jennifred Jones

Oh, man! I don’t know what to write about! If I say this –that person may not like it, if I say that –somebody else won’t like it. Probably no one will like/need/want what I have to say. So I guess I’ll just stay safe and say nothing 😦

All wrapped up in my self-made cocoon, not developing, not coming out, refusing to become/share what I have to contribute.

It’s dark inside this cocoon, nobody to talk to, too quiet, and I feel cramped. Can’t get around, can’t do anything except lay-low and wait….wait for what!?! How long is this going to last? How long do I have to be in here?

Hold on!….. I have a key to get out! That is the key!! Looking outward!!!

There’s a whole bunch of people outside…wanting to see what I’m doing. They want to see what I’m about. Perhaps I can help them…wait! they’re helping pull me out. I can see the sunshine, it feels good on my wings, and I am gaining strength….let’s see, that person over there has a need…I think perhaps….Hey! those guys need help and I know what to do there too! I can’t help everybody, but I’m already pretty busy helping somebody!

That key sure worked great!!!

Now when I get stuck inside…I’m gonna look outside. There is a world of people needing what I have to give.

Throw off the wraps!

There’s work to do!

Will you join me?