“Get crackin’”

When the dark days seem to loom day after day after day and the weeks turn into months into years, and there is hard work to get to….hard work that needs to happen.

Get crackin’.

The sun will come up tomorrow, Even if it chooses to hide behind the clouds for a day or two. That, right there, says a lot. About the strength of positivity and light. Gotta remember, that even the sun needs to hide behind a friend or two before it can shine brightly in its own right, in its own might.☀️💪🏻

Nothing is more powerful. No ball is more beautiful than the radiance of the sun and its strength when it comes out to shine down its rays on those of us walking the earth with our toils and troubles, joys and concerns.

The sun? The ultimate mood changer.

We all, ya’ll, get bogged down, down here on planet earth with our hurts, habits, hang ups jealousies, joys, too. Sometimes. We do whatever it takes to prove I am right and you are wrong. Boisterously, too. Actively, like yesterday. We forgot to take a breath and look up at the sky. Our heads were buried.

In our phones. In our devices.

The sun will come out tomorrow. But today it came out, to play, to shine. We missed it, the opportunity, because instead of looking up, where the sun was smiling and shining and inviting us—welcoming us—-waiting for us to notice. We ignored its radiance and shine.

Social media? Could really hold its own in the “Get crackin’” world of getting things right with no excuses. Still important to remember it is simply a tool.

A tool without a heart.☺️

The problem? The problemo? Still, social media and its buttons are pushed ☺️ and operated by……humans…..at least for the time being.

I hear murmurings about intelligence that is fake, coming down the pipes at a store near you, very soon. The thought of this is both scary and intriguing. Why? Why would removing anything human, any human operating it be a good thing. Don’t we need each other, one another, if only for a moment in time?

Not be allowed to push another’s buttons is a good thing, not a bad thing. What will we all do with our days then? If we are not allowed to push one another’s buttons?

Breathe, for one.

Shine, for another.

Examine our hearts.

Will we become smarter?

Will we become lazier?

Will we become happier?

Will we become more depressed.

Will we become more entitled?

Will our own cracks start to show—too much?

Not enough?

Will we worry that when the sun comes out the brightness will show even the slightest line we crossed written all over our faces. What will we do when our cracks, our flaws become who we are?

And we become,

”Outed.”

One, we, he, she, etcetera, etcetera can only begin to solve a problem when one, we, he, she etcetera, etcetera admit

There is a problem.

The rub?

The process is the punishment and solving it oftentimes is so not easy. Who wants to “look bad.”

Enter.

The sun🙂.

Doom and gloom will always be there hanging around with the darks clouds. Invading the cracks and the flaws like there is no tomorrow. ‘Cept, there is because the sun is always there, ready to rise and shine and give God’s glory and mercy. The sun is no match for the cloudy judgments we impart upon our friends and enemies, frenemies and foe. Even if the sun decides not to shine one or two particular days.

It is still there. Waiting, wondering and hoping we are all doing

A-ok. The storms? They are a part of the the sun’s strength making capabilities because when they blow big and strong, sometimes for days on end. The terms are still no match for the sun’s radiance.

The sun? Stands alone. The storm clouds need all that atmospheric pressure, darkness, over flowing rainwater of tears to prove themselves any match for the sun and its strength.

We? Just have to let patience be our guide and let God whisper our next step. “This may seem counterintuitive, but I have been inspired lately by how many cracks and flaws we all have.” (lc)

Further.

”I have seen how those very imperfections are the portals through which we are called into the world to share love and hope.”(lc)

It may simply come or up down to the value we place in the person of a person. Huh?

The sun. Is up there, day and night. Sleeps when we sleep rises when we rise. Its brightness causes us at times, to shut our eyes, because we cannot stand its over whelming-ness. We do not know what to do with it so we allow our cracks and flaws to take the lead. We hide.

When the cracks and flaws take the lead, the drag is behind us. It feels energy-less.

What fun is that? All along we could have just looked up, seen the brilliance of the opportunities that stood before us and taken a giant leap of faith, a step forward, a baby step forward and we would have been walking in sun shine.

Instead, we hid. Unable to release properly the angst and ungst. 🙃 that swirl around the storm filled clouds of pain and lightning in our minds. Hoping the past will wash away with the pain. We could easily chosen to follow the sun. We were frightened.

We only came out on the days when the storm was at its worst because we were certain in our hurting mind that we deserved only smallness. Emotion-filled fuel added to the lightning and thunder. Instead maybe we could have waited, been patient, less me-oriented. It is difficult beyond words sometimes to learn that trust is earned, over time. And most people are good.

We may have become lost in our own mine-field and mind-filled storm of memories and regrets. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. (na)

One individual can perform a seemingly small action which can result in massive achievement for all! How awesome is that! There are boundaries. More important,y there are boundless good ways to achieve good for the greater good in the midst of the storms.

The sun!

One small step into its brightness and we can be forever changed for the better. We may become not so worried about sun screen damage and how it looks on us. We trust and come to rely more on its healing power and can simply bask in and feel the warmth of Him on us through the bright hot sun and its healing rays.

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