This Little Light of Mine

 

I love this house. On my walks I always admire the owner’s sense of style. Fun lights of different kinds throughout the year. The legendary Christmas Rooster of Richardson. This art work that seems to grow as naturally as the true landscaping; that somehow, someway, belongs and makes perfect sense. I like the bold color and the fact it is front and center. These folk have pizazz and all the neighborhood is the better. They are who they are, and it shines through their home into the world.

Jesus spoke of letting light shine into the world. “You are the light of the world”. “No one lights a lamp and hides it under a basket.” “Walk in the light.” “I am the light.” “The light is among you a little longer.” “Believe in the light so you may be one children of the light.”

Who we are as people of the light needs to shine into the world. Like different types of electric bulbs, we have our own color and shade of light. Like different flickering flames, our light ebbs and flows and dances in the darkness as time rolls on.

Leo Tolstoy writes, “All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.” We are a people who need to shine, living in a world that needs us to shine. We need to be true to who we are and let our light shine into our neighborhood. Some will shine through big roosters and pink plants, like my neighbor. Some will shine quietly in covert acts of kindness snd compassion. Some will storm the darkness with public rhetoric and others will live a shining life irresistible in their little corner of the world. All that light together brightens he world. “This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine.” Today.

Peace.