JC reflects on seasons, using the idea that shadows prove the sunshine to explore how changing times reveal evidence of light, presence and ongoing movement in life, offering two practical tidbits to reframe feelings as signs of living.
JC: As the seasons change, we always have the opportunity to go. He says shadows prove the sunshine. JC: How often do we look at ourselves as finite or as nouns? He says there is evidence that this world continues to move and shine.
Sunshine, won't you be my mother? Sunshine, come and help me see My heart is darker than the oceans My heart is frozen underneath Alicia. How are you, my friend? Chris Fortman. Nice to see you. Crooked souls trying to stay up straight Dry eyes in the pouring rain wow. The shadow proves the sunshine the shadow proves the sunshine Good day, Cadre. How are you doing today? Mel? Nice to see you. Chris. Alicia, Nice to see all of y' all today. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you.
It is truly a gift spending time with you. If that makes you uncomfortable to know that you are special, I am. Okay. Making you feel a little uncomfortable. You are a special being and you change this world by being in it. Shadow proves the sunshine this is a song, a deep track from Switch Foot. You know, when this album came out, but long, long time ago. Switch Foot. But I love this idea of the shadow proving the sunshine. It's that time of year where mornings are a little bit more morning, and the days, even though they're a little bit.
Maybe shorter, sometimes feel a little bit longer. T dot, dot. Nice to see you, my friend. So as the seasons change, we always have the opportunity to go, huh? That's right. We are not finite beings and we are not living in a finite world. So something that maybe made sense yesterday may not, may be making a lot of sense today. Something that filled your cup in the middle of summer, maybe something that's really challenging to you in the dead of winter. But there is evidence that this world continues to move and shine and provide us the things that we need to get on through.
One of those things are shadows. It's a gloomy day where I am. What about where you are? Is it chilly? Is the sun shining? Is it kind of feeling like Halloween is right around the corner? If so, look for the spaces where you can see the proof that that sun is still up there. Bringing heat, bringing warmth, bringing light, bringing all the things that. That give us energy, that literally, physiologically bring us to life. So often we see the shadows and we go, gosh, that is an absence of. An absence of the good, an absence of.
Of the. Of. Of the nourishing of the. Of the need in reality. It's. It's. It's half of the puzzle. It's half the formula, right? That shadow can't exist without two things. Number one, light. Number two, the things that are existing around us that show us that we are alive. Well, and always a verb. So if there's going to be two little tidbits that you walk away with in your head from this little live stream today in the Cadre sphere, it's this. Number one, the shadows, they prove the sunshine. You may not be like, oh, my gosh, so there's sunshine.
Great, now I'm not sad or depressed anymore. No, no, you will walk out. You're probably feeling exactly the same way, but you'll go, huh? You know what? My feelings are evidence of me doing this so called life. So, number one, shadows prove the sunshine. Number two, you are a verb. You are not a noun. You are an evolution. You are a process. You are a story being told. How often do we look at ourselves as finite or as nouns? Like I am marker or I am key or I am disco ball. And in reality, no, you are.
You are art. You are opening and closing and changing. You are dance, you are movement. Right? You are a verb. You are not a noun. You are ever changing. So in this moment, if you're like, ah, I got everything figured out. Wait a little bit. Or it's like, oh, my gosh, I am so lost. Wait a minute, right? We're glad we're here. We're glad you are here. We know what we know and we care about you. The shadow proves the sunshine, y'. All. The sunshine.
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