After the weekend....light within shines bright.

This weekend was an eye opener for me. Maybe the bright light of the unexpected warm spring sun that healed my hurt provided the glow I needed to feel within.

Maybe unconsciously I had feared it may have been lost. (It was not.)

If I may have a moment to be a bit vague but suffering teaches us much. In acknowledging our pain, we can move beyond it. Good advice to read but hard advice to put in action.

I think this is what is awakening in me.

I am often reminded when I reach a turning point of an old quote that really should be posted on the walls of my heart.

As I start my week, please enjoy this quote by Marianne Williamson while I stoke the flames of my spirit.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?'

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."