Katy Perry sings Baby you’re a firework, and I think it’s true. Sometimes each of us makes a glorious splash of color against the sky, lighting up the world with our beauty and brilliance. Other days feel like we are spinning furiously, going nowhere, sending off sparks in all directions that alarm those closest to us. Neither kind of day lasts forever.

What sort of light will you put forth today?

The Daily Compass offers words and images to inspire spiritual reflection and encourage the creation of a more loving, inclusive and just world. Produced by The Church of the Larger Fellowship, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation Without Walls.