Sunny Side

Shadows can be creepy. Even itsy bitsy 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.  The 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, change focus to the SonShine side where The Light of God shines eternally ... banishing all shadows.  "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

 

There's a dark & a troubled side of life.  But there's a bright & a sunny side too.

Though you meet with the darkness & strife.  The sunny side you also may view.

Though the storm & its fury rage today.  Crushing hope that we cherish so dear.

The cloud & storm will in time will pass away.  And the sun again will shine bright and clear

Let us breathe with a song of hope each day.  Though the moment be cloudy or gray.

And let us trust in our Savior always.  He'll keep us every one in his care

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.