Sunshine

I just want to start out by saying I really thank God everyday that I'm blessed to see the sunshine.  There's just something about the way it covers everything...no exceptions, how it can peek out from around a dark object to bring a beautiful ray through and illuminate everything in it's path.

We have just had the opportunity to vacation in the sunshine state of Florida for the past two weeks and what a joy it was to see the sunshine daily. Even if there were cloudy days there was always a peek of sunshine at one point or another during the day and it just made me smile. As I thought about the sunshine and how wonderful it is I also thought how wonderful it is when people are like sunshine.  There's always someone that you can think of that is like sunshine....they make you feel warm, bright, happy, and like you just don't want to sleep. For me sunshine gives the feeling of wanting to do things with or for others. I just want to smile when I see that same look in others eyes as they too enjoy the sunshine.

But then there's the gray days....we had those on our travels home.  It stormed, heavy heavy rain and as we got further north it turned to snow. The last morning of of travels we were at breakfast and the gray skies felt heavy. Then I noticed a little ray of sunshine (not really but it made me feel, at first, like it was real). I spotted out the window someone clearing the sidewalk outside...but there was something unusual about him.  I thought to myself "if He does this for a living why does his coat look so tattered?" then He turned around. I realized that this wonderful man was a poor homeless man doing a kind dead for a restaurant so that the pattrons wouldn't slip on all the snow that they themselves had failed to clear themselves. I thought "how nice of Him...I'm sure that they could give him at least a warm cup of soup for His kindness". Of course no sooner had I thought that and looked back out the window only to have the heavy gray skies fall hard. A worker went out, took the shovel from Him and sent Him on His way with nothing.

It's sad to see how the world is forgetting the importance of shining light on all.  When is the world going to remember that we are all God's children and we need to look out for one another?  We were pretty much finished at this point too so we quickly got in the car and drove around the building trying to see which way He went (thinking in snow we could find His tracks) but not a track to be found. I don't know where he went to but I was blessed for that moment. I want to let my sunshine shine and I really am going to try harder to let it shine on everyone and not hide behind the clouds.