I heard a phrase this weekend that really struck me and has stayed with me. Someone made a comment about light being powerful enough to cut through steel. I know laser technology has been around several decades, but ponder that as if you’re hearing it for the first time. LIGHT can cut through STEEL.
Focused light is powerful. A ray of light makes darkness shrink in its wake. The smallest lamp transforms a completely dark room. Yet, the same amount of darkness does nearly nothing to a room full of light. Light illuminates everything in its path.
People in the personal development field (authors, speakers, coaches, teachers, etc) and those in the various healing professions (for mind and body) are sometimes referred to as “light” workers. But we are all able to spread light to others by the way we carry ourselves and the way we treat people.
You can be the light, radiating bright hope and encouragement wherever you go, by choosing to find the gift in challenging situations and refusing to indulge in negativity. You can use light to help shift the perspective on anything that seems dark in your world or someone else’s.
Remember Pig-Pen, the character in Charlie Brown who always had the cloud of dust hanging over him? I think it even made people cough to be around him. We all know people who are difficult to be around because of the cloud of negativity surrounding them. And… there are people in our lives who always seem to carry sunshine. We can see it in their countenance, and in their eyes. They radiate joy, cheer and goodness.
In my FTG book dedications, I thanked my good friend Todd for always showing me how to be sunny. Even in the face of grief from a devastating loss, I remember he was still “partly sunny.” Still optimistic. He was sad and grieving, but not despairing. There’s a huge difference.
Maybe some people are wired to be more sunny than others, but as in most things, intentions can make the difference. How much light can you radiate today to yourself and to those around you? We can all choose to be sunnier than our usual disposition. We just might start a ripple effect.
Be the light today. In fact, I’m issuing a “Be the Light” challenge. If you’re up for spreading some sunshine today, call or send five texts or emails to five people, with no reason other than to brighten their day. Send words, a song, a meme, a short video expressing gratitude for them, a photo from the past of you with them, or whatever else you can think of that will bring a smile to someone’s face and warmth to their hearts.
Take a screenshot and/or tell me about it in the FTG readers group. I will do the same. I can’t wait to hear from you. It makes me happy to imagine all of us bringing extra sunshine to those who are suffering and to those who need a brightened perspective.
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine …
