Face the Son

Shadows are creepy, don't you think?  Nasty.  Dismal.  Cold.  Scary.  I don't get warm fuzzy feelings from thinking about shadows.  Itty biddy things can cast huge shadows, intimidating even the bravest of folks.  I wish all shadows to be banished!

What shadows overwhelm us?  Bad choices.  Disappointments.  Poor health.  Finances.  Loneliness.  Grief, sorrow, & loss.  Failures.  Fear.  Our past.  These shadows can certainly do a number even on the strongest of Believers.  Helen Keller said, "Keep your face to the sun, and you cannot see the shadows."  What a plan!  In contrast to the dismal, cold, scary shadows of life, the warmth of the sunshine is welcome to weary spirits.  The light reveals those nasty shadows to be the allusion they are.  We can hang around in the shadows and be swallowed up by them, or we can turn away -- change direction, turn our focus to The Son where Light shines eternally.  "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ... think on these things." Philippians 4:8.  Ada Blenkhorn wrote the words to this tune made famous by the Carter Family, “Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side.  Keep on the sunny side of life.  It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way.  If we'll keep on the sunny side of life.”  Banish shadows – turn your face to the Son!