05 Oct T(w)o Light & Sunshine
Truth: I am marginally afraid of the dark. I prefer dark when trying to sleep, pitch black to be exact. However, it also terrifies me. My imagination is too creative, too active for blackness to ever be a good thing.
In August, when we went on my Bachelorette beach weekend, we left very late. Around one o’clock in the morning we found ourselves on a desolate, dark, orange cone-lined straight away. It was incredibly creepy. With half a tank of gas and three girls in the car…my [too] crazy imagination went wild. What if we broke down? What if we randomly ran out of gas because the odometer (or whichever -meter that is) is wrong? What if there is a road block up ahead and some Texas-chainsaw-massacre-accomplices try to detour us down their dark path to our deaths? As the orange cones came to a point and turned to spots in the distance, it felt as if we were driving into our death.
You think I’m kidding. Unfortunately…I’m completely serious. This isn’t a rarity in that betrayer brain of mine. If I wake up in the middle of the night (which if you’ve met my bladder you know is inevitable), if I wake up more than just enough to stumble to the bathroom I can instantly be scared out of my mind and see things that are not there.
The mind is not always my friend. Yes, it is the powerhouse behind all of my bodily functioning. Yes, it helps me to teach and dance. To cook dinner for the kiddos. To type and write and do my work. It is such a blessing…and yet, such an enemy. (Hence…25 days of resetting my thoughts.)
Today as I took the dogs for a stroll, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the light. The conditions for enjoying the sunshine were decidedly perfect. Fall makes everything better. Throw in a slight breeze, rustling gold leaves, and steep shadows that dance…and well, a heart happy you can make.
“Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.'” [John 8:12]
The world all around me was bright, lit up by brilliant sunlight.
[On the way home from the beach…we did not even take note of when we passed through the path of doom. We never even noticed the cones.]
When there is no darkness…there is nothing to fear.
Today…I praise because I can claim the Light. I can cling to Him and not be fearful. I can know the ground beneath my feet is secure because in my path, while on my journey…each step is lit.
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“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things
of life which are the real one after all.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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