Day 112...The Sunshine Girls

if i could think of one thing that i would want to be known for, I wish it were that I brought sunshine into people's worlds.  that is my desire.  i want to be that light that people need, to brighten up the darkness, reveal the good, shoo away the bad.  i think that's what God would want.  i even believe that this is the "torch" that Jesus passed on to us, His followers.  He is the Light, and we have become his little lights.  on the mount, Jesus did say that we are the light of the world.  i know a lot of people might think this just means sharing the gospel, spreading the good news, praying with people to receive Christ...but i believe it's even more than that.  i want to be a light that expels the darkness, tells it, "You have to go!"  i want to exorcise all darkness within people with God on the inside of me.  and i want Him to get the glory.

you are my sunshine.  my only sunshine.  you make me happy, when skies are gray.
you'll never know dear, how much i love you,
please don't take my sunshine away.

it's a sweet song, but kind of a weird one if you keep on singing the rest of the verses.  you love it when i sing this song to you.  it's become a special and dear one to us.  we sing it nearly every day.

my mom has always said i'm her sunshine, that i light up her life.  now she's saying that about you.  and papa too.  daa says you "light up his house."  that brings joy to my soul, to know my daughter does that for not only me, but others she is with.  already, you are being known as sunshine.

maybe we can be the sunshine girls together.  wouldn't that be a pair, a mother and daughter dynamic-duo, delighted to carry the sunshine to whomever, whenever.  wouldn't that be something.

i pray it would be so.  i pray for more.  that we could be the SONshine girls; that we would radiate God's goodness, His good news, everywhere, with the light of His love.  a real, tangible, compassionate love, lived out through us.

Dear Sunshine Sadie.

"Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame."  Psalm 34:5