Did I Help?

I saw this video this morning and it made me think. I know his message is about how it takes many people working together to create the world we live in and the things in our world. And how true that is if you look at it his way!  SO if that is true than I/we can use this concept to feel really good about the things we do in the world. Our "small" jobs etc. If someone is thinking that they do not make a difference maybe a mind shift to thinking this- " I never know what part I may have played when being kind to someone, or selling something to someone, or - fill in the blank. Maybe in some small way I helped us go to the moon"  (hey, you never know) As a musician - maybe someone was distraught and heard your music and was able to go on, maybe as a sales person you smiled, gave someone an idea- it goes on and on.

Just another way to feel good about ourselves and our contributions. We are all worthy of praise if we are all doing our best.

Luv ya,

As I awoke the other morning to my radio alarm, a recently produced song by Jim James, State of the Art (aeiou) was playing and the first lyrics I registered in my sleepy brain where these:

Now I know you need the dark

just as much as the sun

I said to myself (or maybe out loud), "You talking to me?  Trying to tell me something? I hear you, but really?" Cause I'm going through a little dark right now and I don't know if I like this concept. 

But....that got me thinking. I think we've all heard things like, you need the rain to appreciate the sunshine, or you need some bad to appreciate the good.  I assume the JJ lyrics above are in line with that thinking.  Except that he uses the words "just as much" which to me changes it up.  Does someone's good have to be offset by just as much bad? Is that an unwritten law of the universe. If I looked hard enough would I find something about this in the Bible? Maybe a reader could help me with this.

But let's look at this this another way. If someone lived in their version of what paradise is, would they eventually not appreciate it unless there was bad also? Get bored, take everything for granted? I wonder. 

I do know that I believe we can get through the "dark" if we appreciate and are grateful for the sun (light, good) when we have it. And if we can practice, and it's not always easy -say it with me now- 

BEING HAPPY ON THE WAY TO WHERE WE'RE GOING.

Even if where we're going is out of the dark to the light.

Love ya,

Rain rain go away- well maybe.

Wow! We have had days and days of rain. And complaining about the rain and the rain spoiled our Fourth
of July celebrations, and mushrooms were growing where they don't usually grow. (which was actually kinda cool) Then finally- THE SUN comes out. Bright and ..... hot.

In the early morning, seeing the sun when I woke up and feeling it on my face as I read the paper on the deck was something to sing about, so I did- "sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry". (Is that how it goes?)  Anyway. By late afternoon- I uttered my first complaint about the sun. Sigh. Not the sun so much but the heat from the sun. As soon as the words flowed out of my mouth I realized. Can I go a whole day without complaining about something?  Or maybe just small talk, you know something to comment on.  I did suck my words back quickly with a "well not that I'm complaining."  But too late. I clearly was/did.  Of course I was glad it had stopped raining.  I don't know. I wasn't the only one I heard complaining- but I'm only in charge of me.  And I was really aggravated at myself. I think complaining has just become a way of communicating for most of us. hummm
I gonna work on that. Wanna join me?

The Beatles said it well
- If the rain comes they run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead
If the rain comes, if the rain comes
When the sun shines they slip into the shade
And drink their lemonade
When the sun shines, when the sun shines

Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines
It's just a state of mind?
Can you hear me, can you hear me?

Can ya hear me now?  Love ya