Lighting a lamp ...

How important light is! This morning I experienced it for before the sun had brightened the sky I was working at Panera Bread next to the windows and I did not realize how much I was depending on the external lights over the sidewalk for reading. And then they turned off. Even though I enjoyed being next to the windows I had to move in order to read. It helped me to have that in mind as I read,

‘No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar, but on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light; but if it is not healthy, your body is full of darkness. Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.’

(Luke 11:33-36)

This reading calls me to my own self-reflection on how well I am allowing the light of God that is full love shine through me.

On this day, I invite you to do so as well.