The light over that dark horizon

In a world that celebrates its cowardice and pettiness and dark impulses, say those who carry candlesticks, we can either offer our own portion, or we can envision a brighter horizon. Dark can give way to light. If we take time to notice just how dark it has gotten.



Perhaps ugly is not the only impulse that can find a home in our hearts. Perhaps there is no home, at all, in our hearts, as long as it does.

Amidst the celebration - mine, yours, all of us, when we are honest - of the small and base in our natures, perhaps we might consider what kind of world we have made for ourselves and our children in consequence.



And, then, perhaps, there might be hope for something more beautiful for the ones we love, after all.