Staying in the Light

The sunlight was peering through trees the other morning as I was jogging around the pond with the crisp cool air surrounding me. The leaves were thinking about changing colors, but not completely sure.

The path was pretty bright in the spots where the sun shone through. Yet it was darker and not illuminated in the shadow
where the sunlight was blocked by the trees.








Stay in the light.

For where the light is, there is life.
You may need to reposition yourself.
While standing in the shadows of the tree, sunlight pokes through and streams around. But it requires you to take a couple steps to the left or to the right to be standing in the light.

Trees of trouble, 
trees of thoughts and doubts,
trees of frustration,
casting shadows, blocking the light.

Move to stay in the light.



I find myself standing in the dark part of the path all too often. 
Reposition.
Positioning again. 
Moving to the light, a couple steps over, is oh so easy, yet oh so difficult. 

Staying in the light looks like standing on the promises of God's word to me, whether His written or His spoken word. Reminding myself of what He has done. Meditating on who He is - good, faithful, and kind. Full of grace and mercy. He is love. When I make this shift in the path of my thoughts, clarity comes as I am in the light. 

For with you is the fountain of life; 

in Your light, we see Light. 

Psalm 36:9

Staying in the light means choosing life. In His light, I have life. I want to walk in the the light. Not choosing darkness, nor death. Speaking life and truth about situations, people, and events. Everything I say and do - a conscious choice to 
walk 
in
the 
Light

...but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, 

and the blood of Jesus His son cleanses us from all sin." 

1 John 1:7

Standing in the light brings warmth. I want to bask in His warmth. And His illumination. And His truth. Standing in the shadows brings a darkness and a clouding to everything I look at and do. My thoughts spiral and I view life with a critical eye.

Staying in the light means choosing to focus on what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, good report, virtue . . . anything worthy of praise. 

The 
Light. 

The One who shines, who makes manifest by rays of His majesty and glory.

Jesus spoke to them again saying, "I am the Light of the world; He who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life." John 8:12