Send light sparks

A right word at the right time

How wonderful it is to get out into nature on days when you are feeling a little down.

I so enjoy it when I feel a gentle breeze and love it when the flowers in the fields seem to smile happily at me. I marvel at the crowns of the mighty trees swaying in the wind while the leaves shine in the sun and rustle loudly as if applauding, praising, singing. The stream that happily ripples along quenches the thirst in my soul, soothes me, and fills me with awe for my Creator. Such a walk-through creation restores my balance somewhat. For me, it is like receiving personal greeting cards from God. I like this thought and it encourages me a lot.

Don't we all need such greeting cards to encourage and confirm us again and again?

From a faith perspective, that's exactly what God wants to do through the beauty of His creation and through His Word: He sends us sparks of hope....

"Send Light Sparks" is a non-profit project and was born from the idea of motivating people to appreciate each other more through gratitude, encouragement, and praise. Sometimes a few words of appreciation can brighten up a gray, dreary day and finally a depressed soul like little sparks of light.

For this purpose, I create wooden cards with encouraging and strengthening sayings about faith, love, and creation. They can be written on the inside like normal double paper cards.

We all know institutions, missions, businesses or teachers, educators, and therapists to whom we could encourage and express our gratitude. Or we have spouses, know families, friends, neighbors, artists, employees in hospitals, nursing homes, social institutions, and police services, or maybe stressed letter carriers, salesmen, office workers, gardeners, and people in many other possible, voluntary occupations and hobbies or simply people who live in very difficult circumstances and situations. We all need encouragement in word and deed. The wooden cards of "Send Light Sparks" are just a very small way of thanking and encouraging people in our surroundings or even further away.

We are not what we have, but what we are in God's eyes, namely valued and unconditionally loved, no matter in what situation we live.

May God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had.

Romans 15:5