“With each day, we have this choice: we can build walls, block ourselves from the light, and suffer a dampness in the soul. Or we can live barely, shine on through, and suffer the nicks of erosion for living in the open.”
~ Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening
Don’t get hung up on the imagery, though it is beautiful.
Rest instead on the opening: With each day…
This choice, to block ourselves off or to shine on through, isn’t one that comes to us in our darkest hour. It isn’t reserved for the ‘big’ decisions of life, the ones where the gravity is felt, the ones we deliberate over, or even the ones we know we’re making.
This choice, to block or shine, is made every day, all day. It’s made in the auto-pilot of each moment. It’s made in the assumptions, the drives, the seemingly benign, as well as the thoroughly considered, the belabored, the monumental.
This choice is made in silence, in habit, in unexamined thought. In words, in actions, in presence and absence.
This choice is the practice. This choice is life itself.
Time to love louder.
Tucked happily into the gorgeous hills and woods of Wisconsin, I write about life, faith, and the humor that both require. 
Tales From the Nexus 
Wow. I really like this.
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Awesome. Me too. 😊
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