Happy Thursday Digital Neighbors and Friends across Local's. Today's messianic title - Radiant Dawn. I imagine if we were creature of hearing, sound would matter more than sight. But we are what we are - the darkness holds both wonder & fear. I suspect for our predecessors there were many more dangers and fears of the dark when we were still an option on the food chain for other carnivores. I mean we can still be on the menu - watch The Ghost in the Darkness or The Grey, we might on the top but we aren't unchallenged. We talked about this at one of our Coffee Talk the other morning, @eclecticRPT mentioned being in areas so silent that the sounds of nature carried for miles. Imagine being by your campfire at night and hearing hungry nature out there. Dawn brought degrees of comfort and certainty.

Light - illumination - clarity or Darkness - obscurity -confusion. I know what I prefer more of in my life, even if some of the things clarified to me aren't to my liking. I used to think that the desire for clarity was sort of a factory setting for us primates, but I am not longer certain of that. A few years ago I used to have a reoccurring theme in my sermons about the lies that please us or the truths that saves us. Discernment is essential to distinguishing between the two since we are so infallible and prone to so many blind spots in our reasoning. Lies that please us will smother the spirit, lies that please us will enslave us, that lies that please us will make us believe that slavery is freedom and that questioning is crazy. There are already too many signs that we have eaten more than our fair share of lies that please us without critically questioning them.

Hard truths that will make you better after struggle are not preferable to soft lies that comfort you into personal suffocation. I used to think that was the exception among the people, that most of us agree that hard truths are a better path to trod than living with known lies that are pleasing or comforting, I am not so certain anymore. That does not mean that it is all doom & gloom, but if you are a person striving to wrestle with reality instead of ingesting a torrent of lies you will not have an easy life. I suspect you all know that - you are here after all. Any or all of us could have remained on the Mushroom Management communities of Big Tech. Free to use, but not free to question. Free to look like an individual, a person, but don't think apart from the herd. The freedom to conform, self censor like a real liberated soul. Big tech gives you their goodies free after all, and they can refuse service at the push of a button. Your un-personing is just a click away.

The Radiant Dawn - a new day, new opportunities, the ability to see things clearly, maybe for the first time, or maybe for a renewed round at chasing the truths you have discerned in life. Happy Chasing my friends! I hope there is plenty of light in your life to show a clear path forward to your goals. I hope there is plenty of perseverance to keep you focused with the pursuit as it is slow and the climb is often hard. You can't change the past, you can understand it, integrate, atone for it, but you can't change anything about it except how you think and feel about it. The radiant Dawn can bring clarity to your future and open the possibility of seeing the past in a new light as well. Happy Thursday Digital Neighbors!!!