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I have a friend who describes me as "light". Every time she describes me this way, it warms my heart. It also makes me question if indeed she is right? Because just as she says this, I have flashes of  days when I'm blue, sad and angry. I think of days I might have said hurtful words to someone or given a "hot comeback" response.

Yet, she calls me light and my heart is warmed. It makes me also remember how my smile light up at the tiniest things. Of how I can laugh at something I made up even when I'm in tears or how I get real emotional at the thought of the suffering of another. I remember the feeling of the sun in my heart and the wind in my blood. I remember the fire in my eyes and the joy in my feet when I get adventurous. I remember how my mum always ends our conversations by saying "keep remaining sweet". I remember why I started this newsletter initially.

Although my friend calls me light all the time, what she might not realize is that she's a light too. You, my sweet reader, are also light. Yes, we flicker, fizzle and ‘fade-in’ sometimes, yet that doesn't stop us from being lights. We all are lights. We might only need some help once in a while, to remember how to turn on our powers.

Here's a reminder today for the week, you are light. There’s a quote on Ezinne Zara’s blog- Bible diary that resounds with me so much. I hope it does with you too.

"Bright Light. Bright Light. Bright Light. You are Bright Light. Push back the darkness every day. Push back the darkness everyday. Not by hiding your gifts or cowering in fake humility because you’re afraid of people accusing you of being too much, but in presenting to the world what has been deposited on the inside of you. You are enough and whatever part you will play in this Kingdom, big or small, it is enough."

Please take this along with you this week. Shine and do what lights do. The world needs more of your light.

Keep Unboxing. x