In my fortune cookie today, my fortune read "Your individuality provides a light for others." I was originally going to type, "Let that light shine!" and just post the lyrics to "This Little Light of Mine." But I think there is something else to be said here.
While individuality can provide a light for others, it is also individuals who can take the feeble light they find in others and help that person's light shine as well. While the call of the spotlight is strong, it is oft the nobler act to take another's hand, and raise their light up, letting that light shine supported by the strength of your own light.
Look around you today. Who around you, in real life or online, has a wonderful message? Did you take that message, add your light to it and hold it up as your own? Or did you take the person who had that message and hold up that person to shine supported by the strength of your own light?
Or did you smile, acknowledge within your own head and heart that the message was good and simply walk away, taking your light away, leaving the other light to flicker and go out when buffeted by the wind?
It's true, we all have a little light to shine. But instead of holding up our own light, let us hold up the light of others. In doing so, our own becomes part of an even Greater Light. Without this Light, none of us would have the little light we do. And in the act of holding another's light up, our own light is supported by the Greater Light.
Forget my own little light, let the Greater Light shine!!!!
- ESA
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