Sparkle Sparkle!

So I was running (said like Forrest Gump) the other day… I was at a trail where I enjoy running and it was one of those cold beautiful days.  I had finished my run and stopped at the bridge where I was just going to stretch and check out the water below, and there was an otter!  That is irrelevant to my story but was still quite exciting and cute.  Once I started walking back in my cool down to the car I was paying a little closer attention to the ground below me for whatever reason and I noticed that there were tons of little silver specks on the trail that would glitter beautifully when the sun hit off them.  I’ve run here tons of times but for whatever reason- time of day… amount of tree cover… number of people… I don’t know- I had never really noticed them before.  I love things that sparkle and shine so it is odd it never registered with me prior to this run.  As I watched- what I did notice is that the ground was only wonderfully sparkly when the sun was on it… when I passed parts in the shade- no sparkle. 

It dawned on me that we are all like those little silver specks- whatever they are, some type of stone bit.  We are all designed to “sparkle” and “shine” (shine sounds manlier I guess) but we can only do that by reflecting light.  We can’t produce that light on our own- we can only reflect God’s light, and in order to do that we have to be in God’s light.  You can’t reflect light when you are in the darkness- so you have to know you were designed to shine and put yourself in a place where you can shine.  Different people sparkle in different ways and by doing different things (thank goodness we aren’t all the same!), but you can’t in the darkness.  So get out of the darkness and find where you were meant to shine.