Smiling joy.
The light within the light.
I think about this word not as superficial sheen on life and a burden to keep shiny, but the strong light-filled presence which appears when things have a tendency to be difficult, and which arrives like a gentle hand on your back with the news that this is not how it ends, and how it ends is good, and you get to play a part in that.
There is more goodness to come.
Within that is the call of the ‘next step’. *
Anyone who lives wholeheartedly knows this – that sometimes we run into corners and it’s difficult to keep going. Listen out for the ‘still, small voice’ though, and the next step always comes. It may be small, but it always comes. We know what to do next, if we listen. Quieten down, and listen out.
Joy asks me to show up and be present. Life keeps unfolding. I decide to open up with it. I keep finding lights for my feet.
This is why joy will be with me wherever I go.
And that’s why I meditate on this inky word today.
{Today’s Soundtrack: New Jackson – The Night Mail}
* Thank you Rob Bell.