This has been an amazing week. There has been a gamut of events running rampant throughout our communities. These events range from the interpersonal to the continental and in one way or another affect all of the world.
If there's one thing we can count on, though, it's that the altering events of this past week are not over. Nor are they new. Our world has had to deal with these things since the beginning of time. War, death, destruction, and darkness has always tried to find a way to take over our lives.
Just as it seems darkest, though, a glimmer of light appears. A small flame, flickering in the distance, its light a faint yellow as it shines for anyone to go towards it. Then the flame is taken up by someone, usually one who is not expected to be a flame-carrier, and as she/he walks about, other fires are lit as people in the darkness decide they need to help carry the flame. These new flame-carriers begin to walk around, lighting more fires, bringing more light into the darkness until the light shines so bright that nothing is left unseen. Nothing.
What we have, then, is a place where because of one's decision to carry the flame, and another's decision to share the light we find hope, peace, joy, and love. We find these things because when the light shines that bright everything that tries to hide the light is exposed for what it truly is and can no longer take hold of our selves, or those around us.
So, make the decision to be a flame carrier and fill in the blank.
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