Lighting candles this October, as the days have grown smaller, sending glow into lengthening shadows.  Shadows that aren't only spreading across floors and into corners - but into life moments of the Beauty-Full ones.  The ones who seek hard after joy songs and the ones who fight hard just to get the day done - these are the ones where the shadows have been falling.

The nature of shadows is they are shifting, they lack in permanence and change with the season.  The Beauty-Full ones who keep on singing even in the eclipsing are destined to come full out into the Light.

Is giving thanks like a joy song?

We're gathered around the table where the candles are lit and the girls name their thanks.  They sing their own joy song filled with spoken lyrics of people who mean everything to them, and faith full of big ideas, and daily good things that are theirs to hold onto.

Practicing giving thanks, so our lives may outweigh our songs.