Beauty Amidst the Darkness, re you feeling like the world is weighing you down? Does life seem to have sucked the life out of you and all you see is darkness? Ahh, I hear you sometimes it can feel as though all there is, is the dark and nothing left but black. But I don’t see any truth in that. Sure, the situation might say one thing, but is that what truth says about the situation. Maybe it is time to listen to the truth, which shows that no amount of darkness will ever overcome light. Light will always break through the darkness. When you feel like its about to storm, remember the light is behind that darkness and it won’t be held back for long, because light cannot be stopped. Even more than the natural light, is the one who brings hope to a hopeless world, the one who is the Light of the world, Jesus. You can cling to him and you will never be lost in the darkness. He is the one who lights our path.
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Sunset or Sunrise
Are you sitting there thinking that this beautiful sunrise, looks much like a sunset? What makes you think that the sun is setting when it is actually rising? How often do we look at an opportunity and see it as something that is finished, a lost cause, something that will never happen, that has already had its end? Who says it is over? Maybe it is time, to take a fresh look at the picture and see the sun is not setting, life is not ending, it’s a new day, it’s a new beginning. It is time to dust of the dreams you put on hold, to pick up the stuff you thought would never happen and go again. It is not time to lay your head down and go to sleep, it is time to run with new vigour and life. You were not made to see things as sunsets, but as sunrises. See things for the possibility yet to come, say goodbye to yesterday, but don’t stay there, the Son has risen and it is time to get up and go.
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The Fog 
Sometimes life appears to be full of mist and we can’t seem to see, for all the fog in front of us. Have you ever stopped though to wonder about the beauty of such a scene? There is just something so majestic about the mist on a crisp winter’s morning, when, there is even a sense of excitement in the air, as you see that there is a new day about to rise. What will the day hold? Well one thing we can know for sure, is every day holds the possibility of something new. So, don’t let yesterday’s fog, cloud your vision of todays sunrise. It’s a new morning and it is about to break, so let it be an opportunity for hope to take root in your heart, as you celebrate the possibility yet to come.
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Lift Your Eyes to the Horizon
How long has it been since you lifted your eyes to the horizon ahead? Sometimes we get to hanging our head and slumping our shoulders because of the weight that has been weighing us down and then we realise all we are doing is staring at our feet and the mess beneath them. It’s time to pick your head up, look a bit higher and see that there is hope. There is beauty on the horizon. Don’t let the mess around you, keep you from seeing the beauty in front. You only have one life to live, so live it well. Hope awaits you, so don’t let the moments pass you by.
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