dailydatewithgod

Sometimes all we need is a little boost.  Just enough to wake us up or help us get moving.  We may think it would take something epic or cataclysmic to break the tension but then it happens when someone cracks a joke.  We are certain we have no more energy to take one more step and then we take a deep breath. We are convinced that it is only important that we have all the right words in our speech and appear cool and confident. Then we find out how much people related when they found out we were human when we stepped over our own words for a moment.  It is the missed stitch in the beautiful Persian rug that was put their intentionally.  It is the hole in our favorite t-shirt that we just can’t throw away because it is soo comfy at the end of a rough day. These are the gleams of our lives.  We miss them often because we are looking to be blinded.  Yet how valuable is a gleam of light in a dark room?  How immobilized would we become if we were blinded?  It is the gleams in life that give us hope.  It is the gleam of love that awakes in our hearts when we see the smile on the sick kid who just found his favorite stuffed animal to hold during chemo treatment.  Those gleams are the beats that keep the heart going.  God encourages us to learn what the light of life gleams connect straight to our heart.  The more we are familiar with them the more we share a gleam with others by being present to them which allows us to embody the gleam of life for someone else.