Light this Instant
Nothing embodies the importance of this very instant quite like light. Its glowing radiance is always present, always hopeful and always helpful.
Quick! Watch it flash, watch it shine. For at this exact moment, a precious life might need saving. Not in the next minute, or the hour to come. Right now – on the edge of time’s unfolding, where circumstance and consequence plunge together into calamity without light’s intercession.
How is it that a single gleam is deemed so vital? A mystery indeed! In part, might it be that its large-hearted influence is found only in the here and now?
Ponder the perplexity further and one realizes that the power of light is unable live in the past. Bygone beams save nary a soul in the present moment. No sooner does a light flash, it dissipates without a trace upon the darkened deep. Another ray of light must follow – and another, and another. For the sake of watchfulness, it is obliged to do so. Thankfully.
If we are to cherish memories in the making and chase with a fervor the promise of tomorrow, then the moment at hand must be lived and moved through safely. Though not a passageway unto itself, light is the guide to and fro through time and place – be it the future, the past, or the extant ever expanding.
We do well to remember that light is a dear friend – the very essence of life. Cling to it!
Gorgeous shot of Owl’s Head!