Last night my husband took me to see I Am Legend, the new Will Smith movie. Anytime I get to spend 2 hours in the dark with Will, I'm a happy woman, so right there it would have been time well-spent. But this movie went way beyond my initial expectations, leaping from action flick into something much more profound.
I'm not going to say a lot about the movie (except to tell you to go see it) but one thing from the film has stuck with me--"Be the light in the darkness." Those are the last words in the film, a reference to Bob Marley's cure for racism to inject music and light up the darkness.
On the way home, my husband and I talked about having that as one of our goals for the New Year. We've spent time in the past thinking about how we could improve our financial situation or do something to move our careers forward, but we haven't focused on this really simple thing--measuring our actions by how they bring light to the world.
I like that as a goal. It's a beautiful way for me to measure what I do and how I do it. Am I bringing light to the world or not? Am I illuminating things or am I making them murkier and uglier?
How do you bring light to the darkness?
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