Your Daily Opportunity

Morning sunlight flashes on my eyelids welcoming the new day.

“Go away sun light. I sleep still.”

Tap. Tap… TAP! The sunlight persists more heavily on my eyelids welcoming this new day.

“Come join me” it beckons. “I have so much to show you.”

“But I want to sleep some more” I request.

The day insists.

Ring.

Bang.

Bark.

Knock.

Bump.

Spill.

Crack.

Slam.

Crash.

The day starts with a demand.

I open my eyes and I see beauty.

It’s right there in front of me.

It’s in front of everyone.

Yes, too are the crisis, burdens, upsets, limitations, hardships, failures, betrayals, injuries, illnesses, corruptions, and every blasphemous evil of human kind, but I can’t see them.

I won’t see them. For if I look, they obscure my entire vision. It’s hard to see only one blight when each blight brings you to the next one.

Sometimes it’s not easy to see the beauty either. Sometimes the beauty fears the ugly. It runs and it hides.

It retreats and it cowers. But it’s still there.

No matter where it goes or what it does, the beauty in the world and the majesty of life cannot be squelched. It cannot be diminished. It cannot be extinguished. It’s always there in every moment.

Disease and illness take over.

Financial disaster crumbles under a once strong foundation.

Still, beauty remains.

Failure and setback pervade in every unceasing assault of life’s trials and tribulations. But beauty endures.

The world is full of beauty.

It’s also full of every ugly and perversion imaginable and then some. The depths of man’s inhumanity to man is imagined and then realized, and still beauty and love persist. They fight and they win. Not every battle, but certainly most.

And beauty and love persist because though the Heavens are black as night, there are lights that fill every spot in all the blackness of space.

And there is the answer.

Focus on the good in your day, every day and it multiplies exponentially. No matter what. The more good you create, the brighter those dots in the sky burn until all you can see is loving, golden sunlight.

Does good kill bad? No, but good beats bad.

And that’s very good.

#Mana.

#Abundance

#YouCanDoIt

Michael J. Herman is a Professional Writer and author of the forthcoming book Side Hustle With Muscle: Stop Putting Your Talents to The Side and Start Your Small Business.

Reach Michael J. Herman at LinkedIn.com/michaeljherman