“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

- Stephen Hawking

Glimmers

It was turning into a bright morning. I stepped out of my car, which was now at the top of a downtown, multi-story parking terrace. Up to this point of the morning, though I was on top of the terrace, I was feeling down and unsuccessful. Nothing seemed to be going well. Not one thing; until a dawning occurred as a result of taking one more step. I say, “a dawning.” Yet there were two different dawning events that were about to happening.

It was the first dawning that caught my eye, my attention, as I stepped away from my car. I was the only person standing on top of the grand cement slab holding me and my car. And, it could have been a lonely moment, the height of feeling a failure. Yet, that’s not the feeling that grasp my chest, as if an explosion of light hit it from the inside out, a glimmer.

The sun was rising over the Wasatch Mountain Range and its light struck, first, my eye and then enlightened my entire being. So, I walked away from my car, toward the light. Then, I stood facing the glory of the sun, at the concrete barrier, on the edge of the terrace to appreciate it, to take it all in.

That’s when I received a new dawning message. “This is freely given to all!” 

Now I call all such events, “glimmers.”  And, they can come to you and me in many forms.

The most impactful type will depend on the person seeing it. But, here’s the thing. There are more glimmers available than one can initially imagine. I didn’t realize that until I received, accepted and integrated that one, memorable glimmer event. That was the introduction.

I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to see and acknowledge all freely offered glimmers, but the second discovery of that singular event is that seeing more of them is an acquired skill. To receive an increasing number of them you have to attuned to looking for them. And, passively seeing them from time-to-time is not the same as seeking them. 

Stephen Hawking, the great theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge once said, “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

Successful, appreciation and integration of inspirational-renewal from glimmers, comes one step at a time by deciding to seek them daily.

The day was turning into a bright morning. I stepped out of my car, which was now at the top of a downtown, multi-story parking terrace. Up to this point of the morning, though I was on top of the terrace, I was feeling down and unsuccessful. Nothing seemed to be going well. Not one thing; until a dawning occurred as a result of taking one more step. I say, “a dawning.” Yet there were two different dawning events that were about to happening.

It was the first dawning that caught my eye, my attention, as I stepped away from my car. I was the only person standing on top of the grand cement slab holding me and my car. And, it could have been a lonely moment, the height of feeling a failure. Yet, that’s not the feeling that grasp my chest, as if an explosion of light hit it from the inside out, a glimmer.

Actively look for glimmers. They’re there for you.

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