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I just spent most of this evening on my back porch
enjoying a yearly miracle. Every year during the
Summer I have always been fortunate enough to get a
week or two of watching the fireflies light up the
world. I can remember seeing them and chasing after
them when I was only a boy of four or five. I can
remember helping my young cousins catch them and then
let them go while my wife held our baby boy nearly
fifteen years ago. I can remember being blessed by
seeing thousands of them lighting up my back yard
these last few years. Tonight they seemed to almost
dance along as they flew over the tombstones in the
graveyard behind my house. Their shining lights seemed
to blink a beautiful reminder into my soul that there
is no death only everlasting light. I sometimes wish
that we humans could shine our lights as clearly and
beautifully as our firefly friends do, but I guess God
in His infinite, loving wisdom meant for us to shine
our light in other ways. We do, after all, have a
powerful, glowing, wondrous light within us. It comes
out of us as goodness, kindness, love, joy,
compassion, caring, peace, happiness, and delight. It
shines from us whenever we share it and is more
brilliant than a million fireflies.
Make sure then to shine that light within you.
Reach down into your soul and bring out all the love,
joy, goodness, and light that God fills you with.
Bring it out, nourish it, and make it burn bright.
Then share it with the world. Let it shine in your
smile, glow in your kind words, brighten others??™ lives
through your loving actions, and illuminate the world
in your joyous life. Be a daily miracle. Be a firefly
of love for God. Let the light within you set the
world aglow with its brilliance.
Joseph Mazella |
