Light is ever-changing. It can create warmth or be replaced by shadow. It shifts throughout the day, by the day and through the seasons. It has different colors and temperatures and feelings on the skin. Complex and moody it is not always predictable. Light is essential to life and growth. If you block it or take it for granted, you may find your progress stunted, your vision obscured. Though natural light is lovely, to see what is really transpiring in a moment or a month or a life, we sometimes have to put in the work of generating our own light. Without light, those things we have committed to care for may wither…may die.