Monday Morning Thoughts...

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

~Rumi

I have been fortunate enough to travel to many faraway places meeting and coming to know people along the way who were born into so many different worlds from the one I was brought into - in this lifetime. And everywhere, no matter how far removed from the place I call "Home," there has been element of both human darkness and light, and every shade in between. In each of us, there is at least in inkling of light - and at least a hint of the deepest darkness. None of us are immune to human nature.

It is in the givers of light that I hold my hopes and dreams.

And I always seek to be a giver of light whenever possible.

Since my childhood growing up between the Everglades and Gulf Stream, not far from the Jupiter Lighthouse, I have been drawn to these human created lights that have been constructed along the most treacherous of shorelines. If we think about it, and we should, they a symbols of the best in humanity.

Whenever we work to provide light, safety, and comfort to those who will come, long after we have cross that final river, we are committing an act of Pure Love.

We are planting a tree to provide shade that we will never know. We are living outside ourselves - a part of the Universe.

Our True Home.

Today... as I do every day, I will seek to “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”

I cannot build lights of stone, brick, mortar, and steel.

So I build hopefully lasting lights with the only thing I have to offer- meaningful words.

This is my gift to others - the tree that I plant, and the light that I hope to ignite.

You and "We" and our Beautiful Planet are the reasons I write.

Thank you one and all for choosing to read my books and essays.

Writer need Readers.

Namaste' Y'all...

Nothing but Love and Courage.

Keep Casting Forward!

~ Steve