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WEDNESDAY THOUGHT 3/4/09

Hope & Light
 
Though my mother was known on occasion to compare me quite unfavorably to the family dog (“Johnny, I swear, sometimes I think Penelope has more sense than you do!”), she rarely criticized and never condemned me.  Still, she had a gift for reading faces, and I think she saw something in me — part darkness, part light — I tended to keep well hidden, even from myself. 
 
Perhaps that was why she would on occasion look at me and, without apparent reason, announce, “Go for the light.”  No,she wasn’t talking about some out-of-body experience or giving a spontaneous pep talk.  She was speaking about hope and persistence and positive, life-affirming choices, perhaps suspecting I needed a nudge in the right direction in that age-old battle between good and evil. 
 
My point (or Mom’s point, actually):  Never give up and never give in to the darkness that is either deep within us or just outside our door.   Celebrate your faith and your blessings on this day the Lord has given us all and, always, always go for the light. — jri
 
“Everyone who does evil hates the light,
and will not come into the light for fear
that his deeds will be exposed.  But
whoever lives by the truth comes into
the light, so that it may be seen plainly
that what he has done has been done
through God.”
        –    Jesus Christ
               (John 3:29-21)