We shall be known by the light we carry, 
the same light that favors us.
        ~ g. hill

We live in a landscape of light.
When fear pushes us down, look at what a heart can do.  

It can expand even in the darkest of nights to let in more light,
to embrace what our restrained arms cannot do. 
                                 ~ g. hill

We walk in the dark, but we hold up our lights.
 ~Martha Orf

Thoreau said a simple walk in the morning is a blessing for the whole day.  My morning walk palpates with blessings, yet it is far from simple. 

Morning carries its own frequency, a transport to new dimensions. 

I step outside into darkened stillness and take my place among all things living, rooted and growing.  Each step presents a new moment, its own slack tide, hovering between here and there, past and future. 

Millions of dew drops wink up at me. I touch a lacy mesh of tall swaying grass, and it touches back.  I wonder how stillness and movement can coexist. 

A sound pierces the air.  A warbler lifts me to a higher dimension where my spirit flies.  I am not alone.

Stars arc themselves across the sky and I join them in their cycles: a child, wife, mother, teacher, grandmother and friend, in my own constellation of existence. I will one day ride my own chariot to the horizon. 

Everything exists in my awareness. My heart expands to embrace what my restrained arms cannot do. 
                                                   ~ g. hill 

And within the spheres of predawn, of transport, of new dimensions, other light forms pass me by, some of this earth, others beyond. 

We do not speak; words are inadequate and clumsy as a newborn calf.  

We lift our lanterns high to each other, and that is how we are known, by the light we emit, powered by the giver of light, the hallmark of our time here on earth.
                                                 ~ g. hill 

To have a "heart-light-bulb moment", the power has to be on. 
         — Jennifer L. Feuerstein

I am the light of the world.  Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, 
but will have the light of life.
             John 8:12

The light we carry 
is the same light that carries us.
     ~ g. hill

The mind, the heart, the soul, once stretched into new realms, 
never returns to its original dimensions.                   
                                     ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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See Also: A Spirit of Light and Elevation

A Spirit of Light

Elevation