The Power of One

Did anyone see the movie, Pay it Forward? It came out several years ago but it was a wonderful little movie with a powerful message. Today, I want to touch on the theme of that movie. I used to watch television, once in a while but it was so full of crimes committed, wars around the world and personal tragedies that I quit watching. By viewing this type of trauma, daily, it is easy to see why some people have lost hope in anything ever improving.

However, Hope is the one thing that we have the power to exercise; the one real freedom that no one can take away from us. With hope, we can do anything. We can change the negativity of the world by first changing our attitude about the world. We can empower another to try harder. We can give love to all. We can support someone in need. We can find the spiritual path that suits us. We can enable hope to live. We have the Power to be the One that changes the world, if we, first, believe fully in ourselves.

So, on that note, the quote of the day is:

"Faith, hope and love ease the tension of society’s self-inflicted madness.” tc

Ray of Light

I was in Antelope Canyon, Arizona, last week and took a tour through the Upper and Lower Canyons. It is a guided tour presented by the Navajo Indian Reservation. The Upper Canyon is strikingly different from the Lower Canyon tour. In the Upper Canyon, beams of Light penetrate through openings in the canyon ceiling, periodically, along the walk. This is not a place for everyone as the passages are very narrow in places. Those individuals with claustrophobia would not do well. However, for those people who are not wheel-chair bound or larger than 18 inches in girth, both canyon tours are breathtaking wonders of what 180 million years of natural earth forces can do to rock and sandstone.

Besides the ever-changing, awe-inspiring scenes that moved before my eyes, all I could think of was that God IS with us and within us.

So, on that note, the quote of the day is:

“Be a ray of light in someone’s hour of darkness.” tc