Everybody needs a bright spot every now and then

 

 EVERYBODY NEEDS A BRIGHT SPOT NOW AND THEN

Over to the left sunlight spills through a window and casts a glare. Over every one of the electronic screens in the room.  At other times in my life I’d  have been somewhere. Between annoyed and angry about this. Development, however, I’ve  learned a few things about the sun and the lessons it holds for my journey of seeking peace and joy... here are  three of these lessons

Things Change—

the sun that shines  on us in terms of relative time has been the same as  always for all of recorded history... That is not amazing if you consider that the sun is about. 460 billion years old.  It’s really hard to fathom  something being that old... although in college I had some cottage cheese in my mini-fridge that may have started out as a cup of milk from the cafeteria and Ikept it there to have with a Dolly Madison snack cake that may have actually been  baked by that grand ol’ dame just after the war of 1812.  

At. 460 billion years old the sun. Is “middle-aged”  as it has about 500 billion years to go.   As it burns up it’s hydrogen  our sun  will look about the same.  I wish I was burning hydrogen instead of calories—When the sun uses up all the hydrogen it will start expanding and burn up the helium available for fuel.  The sun will. Expand to such a degree. That it will swallow up the earth completely and it will take on a red color.  So our  sun will go from a yellow dwarf to a red giant and then after a bit it will collapse and become a white dwarf.  So the lesson  to take from this is...If you think. Certain of your body parts change over time.you’ve got nothing. To worry about in comparison to the sun?   Well maybe..however.. perhaps  the lesson is Significant  change isn’t always. Evident overnight—then again  if you  can be patient and persistent you might be star struck.

Important things happen  under the surface

The sunlight  blasting into my office right now takes about  8 minutes traveling at the speed of light of course—to come into  my house.  That means  this light got to the surface. Of the sun and  came streaming tow2ard earth.  What most folks  don’t know is that same sunlight came from the center of the sun and  it took  several million years to travel from the core. Of the sun to the surface.   Lesson:  find out what’s  inside folks because it could be really powerful stuff and even if you can travel at the speed of light now...don’t forget there are many  people who  have light to share .  light that is still a long way from shining so that the whole  world can see it—when seeking peace and joy try not to waste the chance to assist others in. Bringing their light  forward.

The Sun is always  there...

Our  world’s will always turn and there will always be clouds and storms (even hurricane-like ones in Iowa), however the sun doesn’t move away.  You can’t be the sun for everyone, and yet, you can be the sun for a few other  folks  and you can be thankful for those people who have been your sun for extended  periods in life.  even. When it’s storming you can know that  the sun will show up soon, help. The flowers grow, dry up the. Messy puddles, and melt the ice that makes life a little more uncertain than you might like.  

So the next time  you see the sun while seeking peace and joy think about the realities that things will change—sometimes slowly, understand that there is a lot of strength and power  that  goes on under the surface in many people and  that you can enhance peace and joy by helping them  find and show their. Inner light/gifts, and believe in the notion that  we not only need a bright spot from time to time, but we can be a bright spot for others too..

So as the song  suggests... 

this is the dawning ...and  it’s time to 

Let the Sunshine In