Light streams as far as we can imagine. There are no limitations, no distance too far, and no sea too turbulent. If you can just imagine, for a nanosecond, that the reflection of God that encompasses you is a part of everyone else on this planet, could you also imagine that your light, and the good that is within, could reach places far and wide, extend beyond your physical surroundings for the benefit and good of another. It is not that hard if you try. Have you ever written a letter to someone, emotionally invested, and giving all of yourself to that person? And then you come to find that the other person thought of you and felt maybe just a little less alone? If you haven’t, you didn’t write hard enough. Have you ever prayed as if everything depended on your prayer, pleading to God for the good of another? Try it. Try to pray or think or imagine good for another person. You will feel a love, a true and vibrant light that you have never known. Now, it will not work if your mind and heart are divided. Maybe your mind is preoccupied with a problem to solve that really needs no solving. Maybe you’ve become too consumed with your own troubles that you couldn’t stop for even a nanosecond to pray for someone else. Maybe your favorite television show is on, and maybe that is more important than your connection to the Divine and others. But I’ve felt that true light can only be yours to give if you are actively using it, streaming it like digital downlink from your mind’s cell tower, showing the gods that you intend to continue giving it and giving it and streaming that energy until you are called home. From your bedroom or your kitchen table, there spins a vortex of creation waiting to be found, a secret place where no one will ever know if you said a prayer for a ‘bad’ person. Pray for them. And maybe, just maybe you’ll find that God is alive in you and that you can matter, that you do matter, that you can and will make a difference. Just a thought. For all of my friends and my enemies, I’m thinking about you now. And I am praying for you, the flames that have ignited my life with meaning and joy, and I will forever bask in gratitude for the lessons you have thought me. And thank you.
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