Free Your Flame
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!
I am not a Christian, but I’m full of Christian verse. One jam from my childhood is “This Little Light of Mine.” The name is half the lyrics. The other half: “I’m gonna let it shine (let it shine, let it shine).”
We don’t shine so much these days. Mostly, we submit. Mostly, we subject ourselves to trials of taking shit: not because we’re stupid, but because we are too tame. If you favor flourishing, you must free your Flame.
Flame’s Function
This Flame I refer to is the secret of your soul: that which you deny yourself for fear of losing face. I’d wager you wore it on your sleeve when you were smaller and more curious to test the limitations of your life.
Perhaps you enjoyed abundant guidance in your practice. Perhaps you endured without allies to your aims. Maybe you were blessed to test a wide array of passions. Maybe you could muster means enough for only one.
Whatever your fortune, you knew before you knew your nation’s name that you had functions beyond faith and fealty. You knew there were skills and secrets simmering inside you. You knew that you burned to forge a future by their Flame.
You knew you were born to bless Creation with this fire, shining like the sun amid the…
