“If someone told you that you can’t SPARKLE in your darkest hour, they lied.”

Wendy Williams

I remember getting the package like it was yesterday. It came in the mail from a good friend.

Flames

Opening it,  I saw sparkling flames across the front cover outlining the above quote.  It meant a lot at the time. 

The Diamond

During the eclipse last Monday,  I thought about these words, especially when I saw the stage called Diamond. It looked like an engagement ring.  

(See picture taken by Josiah Smithe – special thanks to he and his wife for permission to use the “diamond eclipse” pic).

Complete

I further noticed visually that even during the complete eclipse, light still escaped from the sun in a ring around the darkness. 

Spitting

Then I saw the news stories about the volcano in Italy. In the stories, they mentioned how the volcano was spitting rings of light into the air.  It amazed me how no amount of dirt over a volcanos’ bright lava could stop it from going off.  

Both

To me, both the eclipse and volcano visually show that no matter in your life how dark it gets or what shadows/dirt tries to wrongfully hide your life’s sparkle. You can still shine. 

The darkness is not powerful enough to dim your light. 

Takeaway

What are some areas in your life that you want to allow your sparkle to outshine the darkness?

1. Is it choosing kindness instead of hate?

2. Is it encouraging/ helping someone else in spite of what you are facing?

3. Is it standing up for good in spite of the bad?

In the end 

“if someone” (tells) “you that you can’t SPARKLE in your darkest hour”

like the eclipse and volcano show that you can anyway. 

Be a LIGHT in the dark!

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Special thanks to Emerald Nails, a company based out of Florida. They did an excellent job on my nails (see picture below) while I was there as a part of my sponsored horse pictures for my blog.