DEVOTIONAL #6
Written by Timothy Brainard
Today’s spark is the phrase “I Am the Living Light.” Imagine how a lightbulb glows – how quietly it brightens – how each object it encounters turns to gold. Imagine now a lightbulb on a stage. Imagine how its presence blossoms: reaching like a generous balloon. This simple generosity – this golden cast of pleasantness – extends itself eternally from every single one of us. We, too, stand at the center of a stage. Imagine now a blanket carried over to our lightbulb – see the blanket draped across it – note the feeling of the dimming of the light. Imagine now another blanket, heavier and thicker. Then another. And another. Until no light can escape. The stage goes black. In time, we lose all memory of “light beneath the blankets” – we resign ourselves to darkness in the room. These blankets are ideas, misconceptions, and agreements that assemble to obscure our view of light. The stage presents this moment, all of life, and every story; and the “lightbulb” is a symbol: we are centers of Creation! We are Suns! The fact is that forgetfulness by definition validates the presence of a Memory unknowingly (and fleetingly) obscured. The fact is: we remember. For beneath the weight of fantasy, Reality burns freely: undiminished, unencumbered, undisturbed. Inevitably, blankets catch like tinder. Every error is decidedly exposed. Imagine how a lightbulb glows. How willingly it brightens. We are Suns.
Inspired by the Personal Day Signature (110)
