Read 2 Peter 1:16-21 and reflect on these words:
Here is my light. Limited though it is, I hold it up against the night. Perhaps you will see it, and this little glow of mine will encourage you to show your own radiance: each candle sharing its flame with another, multiplying light in defiance of those who prefer to live hidden in deceit's darkness. Here is my light: a votive that flickers in the invisible breeze. If you add your smooth pillar candle and if another friend brings a star and perhaps if a child shares a Buzz Lightyear nightlight then together we might really be something! Our fellowship could be the ray of dawn that interrupts this deep night. And you with your candle and she with a star and the little ones with their nightlights and I with my votive will be content to live together in the dawn while we wait for the fullness of Day to arrive and chase away all of the shadows and lingering phantoms of night. Then in the presence of the beautiful Day we will see each other's faces truly for the first time without mystery or suspicion. Let the Day come! Let the Day come! Wait and watch with me for the brightest Day to burst upon us. Wait and watch with me. Come and create dawn with me, with our lights together against the night. ~ Rachel Hackenberg, United Church of Christ minister and former CML Summer Staff
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