When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. — Corrie Ten Boom

Is the world a dark dreary place for you?

When you allow yourself only to focus on the negative, life becomes a dark dreary place, seemingly with no exit. You become mired in all that is wrong in your life, so much so that it just envelopes you from head to toe, hope is not even a light at the end of the tunnel, because there is no light, at least any that you allow yourself to see. But guess what, you don’t need that much light.

How much light do you need?

Try this at home tonight. Go into the darkest room of your house, close the door and shut off all of the lights, and then just sit there for a second and wait for your eyes to adjust. At first you will not be able to even see your hand if you put it right in front of your face, pretty soon you’ll be able to make out shapes of the furniture in the room, and then amazingly, you’ll be able to see well enough to navigate through that room avoiding everything in your path. That’s because your eyes will find what little light is needed, so you can adjust just enough to navigate around the obstacles laid out before you.

It doesn’t matter where that light emanates from, it could be seeping in through the curtains from a street lamp more than a block away, or from the sliver of the moon that shines tonight. What does matter is that we all have the ability to find that light and adjust to it, and navigate around the obstacles in our life’s path.

Jack Canfield mentions something similar in the video The Secret. He talks about how your car’s head lights only illuminate enough of the road that you can see a distance of a few hundred feet, however you can drive from Los Angeles, to New York City completely in the dark only needing to see your trip unfold befor you two hundred feet at at time.

Where do you find your light?

It begins with gratitude. Look around and find the things that you are grateful for, whether it’s family, friends, health, your pets, whatever. That is where I began and everyday that tunnel gets a bit shorter and a lot more brighter. I don’t see the destination, but I can make out the direction I’m heading in, and see the bumps and potholes in the path that would have caused me to stumble if it were just a bit darker in here.

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