There are many kinds of light. There’s the light that allows people lost in the dark to find their way home. There’s the light of compassion that comforts everything it touches. There’s the light of truth-telling about ourselves that allows us to see what we are doing — or allowing — that has helped bring this darkness upon us. There’s the light that shows us the way forward toward a better world. There’s the light of courage to walk that path no matter who says “Stop!“

No one of us can provide all of the light we need. But every one of us can shed some kind of light.

Every day we can ask ourselves, “What kind of light can I provide today?”

Parker Palmer, The Light for Another