Heavy right now, how do you lighten it?

Man it is a heavy one right now, like super heavy. Between Lock downs, Afghanistan,  the fight for human rights, and fear mongering. Well it folks its time to look for the light. To search out the bright spots, find  our happiness, our joy, and offer up the suffering.

Offering up the suffering, that is a difficult one folks. Like so hard, but why? Why is it so hard to offer it up and get it off our own selves? I don't have an answer. I struggle so much with it. I strive to do better, daily. Recently I have found that when I am really in the depths of the heavy, if I go make jewelry, if I go and find a way bring the Lord to the world, it is a little less heavy.  I can sort out a way to lay it at the foot of the cross when I get lost in my work. I know most of my pieces (right now) stay with me, but I create them with a prayer, I craft them with a mission, and I hope that one day they bring a little light into some ones world.

I hope and pray you find a way to bring some light into your heavy. To offer it up, to lay it at the foot of the cross and stop carrying your burden. Find a way to seek out the joy, the light, the happy. It is there, we just may have to look closer to home.

A source of our joy, looking at old photo's of our babies. We all giggle a lot!