So as i sit here at my office desk on a quiet Friday morning thoughts begin to catch back up with me. Anyone who knows me well knows there are always at least 20 things on my mind at any given second of the day and i like it that way. All of said things get an equal and deep share of my mental capacity for exploration. Some of these subjects of thought are happy and simple, for example in one such case I am in the Adirondack mountains with a few friends peeling off my clothes about to make that plunge into the silver lined water resting peacefully under the moonlight. Some however, are not such happy thoughts but rather pretty serious ones.

A lot has happened in the past year and especially in the past few weeks. Life, for all its beauty and all its worth, is not always the easiest of journeys. There is always heart-break, always loneliness, always something or someone that falls in and out of one's life. This is to be expected, a known fact of life, but just because darkness does not always have the element of surprise does not mean it is any less painful. I have watched with my own eyes an intensity of suffering and grief that I hope never finds its way into even my darkest dreams. My heart has been shattered enough; the pieces still skewed across an abandoned highway.

In my time here i feel i have accomplished a great many things but without satisfaction, I still have not found what I am looking for. There is more out there that beckons me to find it which inspires me to hope; to see past the hardships and the tumbles to a new dawn rising. There are no greater weapons in the face of adversity than faith, hope, and love and no greater source of these than yourself. Everyone of us, a child of God, has with in us a unique greatness, a particular set of skills and blend of personality that, when allowed to grow to its fullest potential, will bring about a better world. Each of us a light in the dark, when all other lights go out. In ourselves we can find this light and in discovering our own light we help others to discover theirs and we learn to see the best in all everyone and everything...

Did i not warn it would be deep, but just because i warned you does not make what was said any less complex. This is but a taste of a single strain of thought that, along with 19 others has made a home, eve if temporarily, in my mind. As i reflect upon all that i can from these thoughts i sip my coffee, wrapping my hands around the mug soaking up its warmth. Staring at the screen, cursor flashing, drinking gently from my delicious cup of love.