Beth's Ponderings
Last week we
experienced a solar eclipse. For some
locations in the United States,
it was a total eclipse, here in Central Alberta the sun
was only partially covered, yet at the peak of the eclipse, there was a
noticeable dimming of the sunlight.
While we are now “enlightened”
enough as a society to realize that an eclipse is not a catastrophic event that
means the world is about to suddenly come to an end, I noticed, leading up to
the actual eclipse, lots of comments and concern expressed about the various “shadow”
events occurring around our world in the past few weeks.
One thing that the
solar eclipse showed us, is that while the moon may have covered the sun for a
moment in time, it had no effect on the sun at all. The sun continued to shine brightly that day
and didn’t dim or hide itself. The moon,
nor clouds for that matter, can really prevent the sun from shining. Any dimming or hiding of the sun is only from
our PERSPECTIVE, it doesn’t in any way reflect reality. No matter how dark the day, or even how dark
the night, the sun continues to shine ceaselessly, and manages to appear yet
again in our sky.
And, it may appear,
from our limited perspectives, that the “shadows” are getting bigger and bigger
in our world, however, we can’t let that discourage us, or cause us to become
so fearful that we stop bringing love, kindness, and compassion to all those we
encounter on a daily basis. The shadows
only dim us if we choose to let them. What
is going on around us should not prevent us from bringing our best selves, and
best efforts, forward. If anything, it
should encourage us to shine even MORE brightly.
I was reminded last
week, and shared in conversation with others...the brighter the light shining,
the bigger the shadows, so all the shadows are showing us is proof that we ARE
shining brighter and brighter as we each bring more light to our corner of the
world.
And it is the light
that holds the true power, not the shadow.
Beth
