Light is a wonderful thing. It bends, travels, warms and glows. It would be a sad life without it for me. I enjoy bright colors, sunny days and that "curl up like a sleeping cat" feeling when the sunlight comes through the window in winter.

The down side of light it that you can't hide things in the light. DUST! (Glares its ugly head) CLUTTER! (Go away bad dream, BOO!) I try to choose to enjoy the light and not let the other thing get me down until I can take care of the monsters.

I have been thinking about the fact that light bends. There is the spot light that obviously puts light in one spot. Hence the name. But even at that some of the light seems to seep out around the edges and nudge the darkness back just a little more. Light does what is is supposed to do.

Now for the applications. When light is shown on some big terrible thing, we look at it and say how bad, disgusting and horrible that thing is. But if we look at the nature of light, it doesn't just illuminate that one huge terrible thing we are all looking at and despising. Some of the light will spill over on us and press against that dark things that need to be uncovered in us. If we look, it will show us something about ourselves. Yes, the big terrible thing needs fixing and exposure, but maybe we should open our eyes to see what we can see about ourselves and other things around that the light exposes. Attitudes, lack of love for others and maybe more......

I don't want to shrink back into more darkness and away from the light. I want to embrace the light that comes my way.