Stepping Up To The Plate

When healing needs to happen and we see someone taking real steps to help it along, yes it does make a difference.

In the world in which we live in we see far too much of things working the other way around ... rifts that are unnecessary in the first place are riven wider, factions develop among those who could and should be working together to make things better for everyone, nobody believes in the goodness of anybody, bucks get passed, the blame game ensues, and next thing you know there's a major problem where no problem ought to exist at all.

So when push is getting too close to becoming shove and it's time for someone to step up to the plate, and we're pretty sure nobody is going to, it brings a hint of a glimmer of hope when somebody actually does. Whether it will make a difference in the long run, nobody knows ... but - for this moment - to see a bit of a shine in eyes too long bleak ... yeah, it makes a difference.

Just lately there's been more of this than we've seen in quite a while, on more than one front ... and it makes my soul smile, yes it does. Nobody expects immediate miracles ... but even those who don't believe in miracles have that hint of a glimmer ... and those of us who do believe in miracles are already taking heart.

Things do not have to remain the way they have become, people. Even when the dark seems to be deepening, there are lights for us to focus on.

See, the thing is, when we focus on those lights we're giving them a light of our own for them to focus on as well ... and so it goes and so it grows, the light that will battle the darkness. And it will win.

And the healing begins, one light at a time, as we are given those lights to focus on, as we add our own little lights (perhaps without even realizing it) to be the focus of others ... 

Healing can happen, folks. It's already begun. 

Find the light that's there for you; focus on it; add your own - and even when the dark crowds in on you it won't be able to get close enough to blind you to the lights you're focusing on - or the one you have become. 

You don't think so? Are you sure? Your light is the focus of more people than you think. Without you even being aware of it, you are that light in somebody else's darkness. So don't you be stepping back from that plate.

Oh.

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