There is something about a black sky, overcast, no stars showing, that can fill you with foreboding. When the horizon line is invisible, there is no way to get your bearings, no way to know exactly where you are, in relationship to the rest of the world. You can feel lost. You need a point of reference.
If your mind is damaged or broken, you might imagine that the blackness you see is all there ever will be. It may feel as though the world is tiny and closing in. The depth of the darkness may trigger thoughts of the worst kind.
Are you standing? Are you sitting? Are you lying down? You’re too numb to know for sure.
Can you hold on? Can you hold on when there seems to be nothing there? Will this ever end? Are you too close to the edge? Are you falling now, soon to crash into a painful oblivion?
You may not know it yet. You cannot see it. But something is out there, something beyond that dark horizon, something in that sky that can change everything. It’s always out there. And it’s on the way toward you.
There! Right there! There, where the trees on the hill meet the distant horizon. It’s a piece of light. A tiny red piece.
It begins to glow. It begins to grow.
And then, a new dawn breaks across the eastern sky. And suddenly … you know that you are standing. You know that you are standing on solid ground. You know … that you are standing on the mountaintop.
The morning sky is ablaze with color. Your mind fills with its majesty. Your heart is warmed by its potential. Your spirit soars above you. All the old doubts and all the new fears lift away from you. And you know that this is a day made just for you, filled with hope, filled with possibilities, filled with everything you could want and need.
You expand your lungs with the fresh morning air and raise your hands to the sky, praising the gift you’ve been given. Now you’re ready. Now you’re prepared.
This is a special day … and you will make it yours.