Open Your Window And Let The Light Shine In...

Shine Forth

You are an amazing masterpiece of creation. Shine forth in your life as you are meant to shine. Brendan Mooney

Hauntingly Illuminated Natural Beauty

Very often nature is more hauntingly beautiful and illuminating than one could ever imagine! 

Illuminating Snow

"The trees and shrubs, however, were now leafless, and their twigs were enveloped in the light snow, which thus made a kind of wintry foliage, with here and there a pendent icicle for the fruit."  Nathaniel Hawthorne ~ The Snow Image

Share Your Blessings

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska wont make it white."
 Bing Crosby 

Illuminating Moon Light

 

Silver

Slowly, silently, now the moon 

Walks the night in her silver shoon; 

This way, and that, she peers, and sees 

Silver fruit upon silver trees; 

One by one the casements catch 

Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; 

Couched in his kennel, like a log, 

With paws of silver sleeps the dog; 

From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep 

Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep; 

A harvest mouse goes scampering by, 

With silver claws, and silver eye; 

And moveless fish in the water gleam, 

By silver reeds in a silver stream.

- Walter de la Mare 

Illuminating Ice Crystals

So Sleeps The Trees

A gentle frost lay on the ground

As the trees are illuminated in November ice

All peaceful and white as pure crystal

Allow The Light To Filter Through

Always allow the light to filter through

Do not let the behavior of others

Destroy your inner peace!

You Are A Spark Of Divine Love

Give Light...

Tomorrow Be Today ~ In Its Own Illuminating Way

Nothing that is can pause or stay; 

The moon will wax, the moon will wane, 

The mist and cloud will turn to rain, 

The rain to mist and cloud again, 

Tomorrow be today. 

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Choose Peace It's Illuminating...

Illuminate Your Life With Kindness

Our Illuminating Sun...

Autumn leaves desperately

Holding fast to that last

Bit of illumination from 

The rays of the sun.

They fall, wither, and fade

Until the awakening of Spring

And the sun's illumination

Calls forth that first bud

When life begins anew.

© 2012 by Diane Dunwell-Hoffman. All Rights Reserved. 

A Prayer For The World

A Prayer for the World

 by Rabbi Harold Kushner

Let the rain come and wash away

the ancient grudges, the bitter hatreds

held and nurtured over generations.

Let the rain wash away the memory

of the hurt, the neglect.

Then let the sun come out and

fill the sky with rainbows.

Let the warmth of the sun heal us

wherever we are broken.

Let it burn away the fog so that

we can see each other clearly.

So that we can see beyond labels,

beyond accents, gender or skin color.

Let the warmth and brightness

of the sun melt our selfishness.

So that we can share the joys and

feel the sorrows of our neighbors.

And let the light of the sun

be so strong that we will see all

people as our neighbors.

Let the earth, nourished by rain,

bring forth flowers

to surround us with beauty.

And let the mountains teach our hearts

to reach upward to heaven.