Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.  John Milton

Punaluu

“God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for tears, and light for the way.”

Kualoa

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me. Fred Rogers a.k.a. "Mister Rogers"

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes. 
Author: Richard Watson Gilder

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. 
Abraham Lincoln 

Hau'ula

What more pleasant sensation
than sunshine on skin,
Spirit and flesh drinking in the light
Of God and energy itself.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche 

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Joseph Addison

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Punaluu

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Kahana Bay

Light, God's eldest daughter... ~Thomas Fuller

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.  ~James Thurber

Happy Mother's Day

One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
The throne of God, burn through eternity -
Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.
~Nathaniel Parker Willis

To rid ourselves of our shadows--who we are--we must step into either total light or total darkness.--Jeremy Preston Johnson

NOTE:  Noah in the picture - he joined me this morning :-)

Kaaawa - along Kamehameha Hwy

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.--William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

"Love is not consolation, it is light"  Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  ~Kahlil Gibran

Ala Moana - Beach Park

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
NOTE: Was on the road driving during sunrise. Offer this shot off Magic Island - Honolulu - this morning - instead.

Kahana Bay

I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. ~Jessi Lane Adams