We each bring light into one another’s lives.

We can often see others better than we can see ourselves – something I was reminded of yesterday.

It can be a life-changing thing.  And just as a day is filled with many kinds of light, each with its own kind of beauty, so each person who visits with us brings a different quality of light to us.

‘[A]t times, we accidentally tear a little hole in the fabric of reality so something on the other side shines through, exposing the darkness of our routine existence.’*

The emerging future is a serendipitous thing.

It depends on our noticing and then being willing to risk becoming more what others feel they see in us – capturing these unexpected rays of light and choosing to live accordingly.

None come to us as fully formed ideas and possibilities but, when we synchronise them with our values and skills and longing, a kind of alchemy happens.

One way we can remove risk is by trying out the possibility: little experiments, prototypes, so we can learn quickly, often, and always forward.

(*From Donald Miller’s Scary Close.)