"Be the Light"

Expressive imagery interwoven with my favorite passage from "Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch:

"Behold the darkness yet curse it not.  Rather be a light unto the darkness and so transform it.  Let your light so shine before men that those who stand in the darkness will be illuminated by the light of your being, and all of you will see at last who you really are.  Be a bringer of the light.  For your light can do more than illuminate your own path.  Your light can be the light which truly lights the world. Shine on then, O' Illuminate, shine on!  That the moment of your grandest darkness may yet become your grandest gift.  And even as you are gifted, so too shall you gift others, giving to them the unspeakable treasure, themselves.  Let this be your task.  Let this be your greatest joy -- to give people back to themselves.  Even in their darkest hour, especially in that hour.  The world waits for you.  Heal it now in the place where you are.  There is much you can do."