Time to shine

Darkness is an invitation to all of us to turn on the light

                             Laura Berman Fortgang the Little Book of Meaning

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It is midnight, and its dark

When I wake up in the morning

It will still be dark

In the bleakness of winter

I leave home in the dark

And I arrive back at home

In the dark

Sometimes I feel like I spend most of my life

“in the dark”

so to speak

but electricity is wonderful

I flip a switch

and presto, light

cool!

too bad it doesn’t work that way

with the darkness of the soul

that darkness that comes

when hateful people

spew their fear and bigotry

when the greedy win

and liars flourish

too bad it does not work that way

when my soul is tired,

tired,

and I feel hopeless and helpless

I want a switch I can flip

To make it all OK!

Click!

Failure, gone

Fear, gone

It does not of course

Work that way

And yet

I do not have to sit in the darkness

I can indeed

turn on the light

I can choose

to listen not talk

I can choose

to be kind and compassionate

not hateful and abusive

I can choose generosity over greed

and acceptance over exclusion

I can choose hope over despair

in me the light can flicker

strengthened by each choice

fueled by Sacred Presence

and there is light in you too

and if enough of us, united

faintly flicker

there is indeed

light in the darkness