“My first memory is of light - the brightness of light - light all around.”
― Georgia O' Keefe
― Georgia O' Keefe
Darkness is creeping slowly over the world. Flowing like ink into the eyes and mouth, dripping in muted drops from wearying fingers, it is taking command. Mankind finds itself at what is most likely the end of time.
When I go for a walk on city streets or in the mall, I look into many people's eyes and see vacancy, despair, and fitful grasping for a panacea.
Just one devoted Christ follower carries sufficient light to reach hundreds, maybe thousands of souls dwelling in darkness. The Pew Research Center estimates the population of Christians around the world to be over 2 billion. Why then is spiritual darkness progressing?
There are many facets involved in answering that question. Instead of probing the darkness with intellect, I suggest Christians devote themselves to prayer as they have never done before, returning broken to God's Word. No words of man can certify the light transmitted when an individual reaches a trembling finger up to touch the hand of the Most High.
The purpose of this blog is to celebrate the light of Jehovah. My life's intent is to grow increasingly sensitive to the luminous presence of God.
I see evidence of his nature in the stars, shining like diamonds; in the toss and toil of the seas; in the whisper of sunset splashed across a cooling sky; in the sound of a baby's cry; in the keening of the bereaved. We live in the light of grace. Go out and pour it into somebody else's life.
"He's the fire in the winter
He's the light that shines on shades of grey
Like the rays across the ocean
The jewel of all my days."
-Introit by Michelle Tumes
Favorite Quotes on Light:
“The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.”― David J. Wholpe
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light."
―Arthur Conan Doyle
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
― The Bible, NIV
“Light
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
― T.S. Eliot
“In the depth a light will grow,
A silver shine no shadows know,
Like wings unfolding in the sky,
That circle 'round a gleaming eye,
Turning darkness all away,
Even depths will know their day,
For every shadow has its end,
In light!
Life will return again!”
― Robert Fanney
“And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
(John 1)”
― The Bible
“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington
"What is to give light must endure burning."
― Viktor Frankl
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1 Sunbeams:
I love your perspective. You never fail to bring fresh new sides to everything that grows dull or hard to understand for me. Not to mention your beautiful blog...can't get over that bird at the top!!!!
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