To Inspire there must first come Illumination

 

 

There are those who self-proclaim as 'light'.

 

Are they a light-bulb? A candle? A search-light or flood light? A spot-light or sun?

 

Better to simply enter a dark room and illumine... and let your inner light so shine. Illuminate as one of your eight eyes of perfection.

 

So that which may inspire may first be seen...  (see Paul to the Ephesians 5;12-14)

 

 

 

Yesterday on my run, I came upon a rabbit laying in the road. Road kill is a pretty regular occurrence for those of us who travel the road's edge; usually messy.

 

This wasn't and I stopped. I do that.

 

The side road was not busy at the time. I bent down and put my hand on the rabbit's motion-less body as a big, open eye seemed to look at me; still, deep and empty. The body was stiffening but still warm. And soft, furry. I felt that. The remnants of life...sharing a connection of the heart.

 

I looked at it; the big eye. I felt a form of prayer travel from me to this creature of God, as lowly as a road-kill rabbit may be. I picked it up and brought it over to the grassy edge of the roadway property. I would spare myself the sight of it getting reduced to a stain on the road over the next few days. The least I could do?

 

For a few minutes as I continued my run, I had this sense that I was supposed to do more? But like what? 

 

Then there was a set of car keys in the road.

 

I picked them up and thought, 'What do I do with these'? One of those runs, huh, Gary? I thought that, too.

 

I hung them from a branch on a small tree along the sidewalk. If someone comes looking they will surely see them on the tree.

 

More 'key's from the road of life I travel upon... with eyes open...and a deep gratitude for the gift of life.

 

Always. Everywhere. Everyday. I pray that I never close my eyes to that.

 

Even in death.

 

And I shall write

as if upon the table of my very heart; true to His word

- and the apple of Thine eye.