dailydatewithgod

Although it is not something we can see with our eyes it is something of which we are aware on an intuitive level.  The lambency existing in all of us stemming from the core of who we are is engaging to those around us.  When we sense the energy of love emitting from someone else’s heart or our own we are filled with the lambency that gives life.  Even in our darkest times it is the soft nature of this light of our being that will never go away. As long as we are breathing we have a lambency alive inside of the truth of who we are. It can take another person to notice it in ourselves especially when our own eyes are clouded by the darkness of our reality.  I remember in college a friend of mine asked me to sponsor her as she went through her spiritual initiation into our common faith practice.  At the time she asked me I was stunned.  I was nursing a broken heart from the break up with my first love and thought my whole heart was shut down.  When I asked her why she wanted me to sponsor her, she said she saw a light in me.  I thought it had been snuffed out.  I in tern was blessed by being able to walk with her as she grew deeper in her relationship with God and aligning herself with a path allowing her to live it fully.  It helped the lambency to go from a soft glow to a bright light and kept me engaged in my own life and remembering to see it as a gift even though I was in a lot of pain.  It was the lambency I witnessed when I first walked in the 12 steps rooms of recovery.  The people there had a light in them that did not bowl you over but was ever-present in their eyes.  It was a lambency I had not seen in my own eyes (the few times I actually looked at myself in the mirror) for a long time.  I was so marred by my addiction to food and sugar that my own eyes had become dull and almost dead to the vibrancy of life’s light in my heart.  I am reminded over and over again when I take the time to look people in the eye, there is a lambent energy alive and well in them.  I do my best to acknowledge it just in case they have forgotten where to find it in themselves.  God gives me the courage and the breath to pause and remember to look for it. I think it is God’s way of helping me remember God’s presence in my every day life.  God is sneaky like that. 😉