Everyone’s encased in fleshly dust
with a struggling spirit inside
that gets to shine out a few times a day
stretching out and up to heaven
blessing everyone around for awhile
until it gets sucked back into the quicksand of
fleshly dust, and the world becomes dark
anticipating our spirit to struggle up out again
People behave imperfectly, including you and me
but having a bit of shine a few times a day is
well worth the effort, the wait, don’t you think?
TR
Prose Me 
“but having a bit of shine a few times a day” I don’t know if I think in these terms — if I see myself shining much — but of “having a little light shed on my own path a few times a day.”
I see what you mean. Sometimes others’ good sides shine in my direction when I need it, and sometimes my good side shines in their direction. My sister is having a very hard time living with our very sick parents and she was thinking, yesterday, that she had offended God in some way. I tried to remind her of Job, and Daniel, that bad things happen and good things happen, it’s not always about offending God, it can sometimes be a testing, or we’re just in the path of someone else’s problems. Just shine when we can, and when we can’t, we can accept someone else’s shine, or at least go looking for it, maybe.