Quiet Corners of the Ordinary

Hello my friends,

I found this nugget of wisdom last week.

We are not saints, we are not heroes. Our lives are lived in the quiet corners of the ordinary. We build tiny hearth fires, sometimes barely strong enough to give off warmth. But to the person lost in the darkness, our tiny flame may be the road to safety, the path to salvation.

It is not given us to know who is lost in the darkness that surrounds us or even if our light is seen. We can only know that against even the smallest of lights, darkness cannot stand.

A sailor lost at sea can be guided home by a single candle. A person lost in a wood can be led to safety by a flickering flame. It is not an issue of quality or intensity or purity. It is simply an issue of the presence of light.

​~ Kent Nerburn: Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

This is what I've been trying to say over and over again in this newsletter. Mr. Nerburn says it a lot better! Our steps of right action are those tiny hearth fires - nothing very big. We don't know who will be affected. We don't know how.

What we need to know is that our light does matter.

Thank you so much for sharing your presence and your light with me.

Love & light,

Nina G