#005: We all need a little sunshine.

I had one of those days recently. The kind of day where it seems as though nothing could possibly lift your spirits. The kind of day you’d like to toss in the fire and watch, in pure apathy, as it disintegrates in the flames, falls to the coals, and turns to ash before your eyes.

The hardest thing to do on a day like this is to turn it around. To shift your thinking. To even want to accept the idea of better thoughts. To merely consider flexing your facial muscles into the makings of a smile.

Even without having ridden a dragon in many years, I can tell you for certain that above those clouds — any clouds, on any day — is the sunshine. It’s always there.

It’s always waiting.

And no amount of magic could take it away.

Even if the rain is falling upon you with the force of a river, and the wind shakes the foundation of your home, and the sky turns black with absolute fury, somewhere up above it all is a reason to hold hope.

I found the sunshine. Even though I couldn’t see it, I knew it was there.

And you too can find your sunshine.