Have you ever tried to wander around your house in the dark?
Navigating any room in the dark is difficult. We tend to stumble through places
we easily get around in the daylight, stubbing our toes on furniture we can’t
see, stepping on those pesky Legos the children forgot to pick up, tripping
over things we normally would just walk over. My wife, Ruthie, works full-time
nights as a nurse, a sacrifice she has made for our family over the past 30
years. We purposely keep our bedroom dark so that she might have a half a
chance to sleep during the day. On those nights she has off, when I get up in
early in the morning, I generally just turn on a penlight that hangs on the
knob of my bedside table so that it gives me enough light for to get dressed
by, but will not disturb the sleep Ruthie really needs. It is amazing how such
a little light can be of such great help. We live in a world filled with
darkness. Violence, abuse, poverty, hunger, illness, underemployment and
unemployment are just some of the things many people navigate in life, and has
plagued humanity for eons. We hear in the psalm, “the Lord is my light and my
salvation, of whom should I be afraid.” Like that little penlight in my
bedroom, the light of Christ is there to help us penetrate the darkness of our
world. To live by Christ’s light is to choose a life in which the darkness can
never overwhelm us, in which we can overcome despair. When we live in Christ’s
light, we, in turn, can be a source of light to others, and joining with one
another as Christ’s light bearers, turn this world of darkness into a world of
light.
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