Do you ponder tiny things? I do. I mean tiny, tiny things. Things you can’t even see…unless you look with your inner eyes. Way back in 1974 I was looking at a glisten. I don’t remember anything else about the particular day except I was feeling optimistic about something. Not sure what. Something. And I decided to write a visual description of my optimism. As it turned out, I also described the sound of optimism…even though it wasn’t my intention as I began to write it all down.
Being an optimist is easy when you have an eternal perspective. I do. I’m completely and utterly convinced there’s a living, loving God who created the universe, this world, and everything in it. And I’m completely and utterly convinced He’s made a paradise for me to live in forever…with Him. And I’m completely and utterly convinced it’s going to be glorious beyond anything I can imagine. And all that is in spite of (certainly not because of) how dark and depressing this world has become. My hope is not diminished.
So, with every word I write…and every note I sing, in the life, I see and hear the sound of optimism. What about you? Are you optimistic about the future? Do you believe there’s an unending future ahead? If not, write to me and tell me why. In the meantime, here’s the sound of optimism…
Glisten
If you could listen to a glisten,
What do you think you would hear?
I think the sound that would be found
Would ring out sparkling clear.
Glisten is the happy sound of happy people
In their happy worlds.
What a joy to enjoy when curled-up glistens
Are uncurled.
Make for me a glisten I can hold inside my hand.
I could carry it with me, and
I wouldn’t need a band.
This is but a moment in our lifetime.
I’m a word and you’re a word, and we rhyme.
If we glisten along our paths,
Our paths will glisten too,
And if you glisten for me,
I know I’ll glisten for you.
© 1974 Tony Funderburk
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