Light is
in my thoughts this morning. This weekend, we took down our outside Christmas
lights. The weather was unusually warm,
so it made sense to do so, and Epiphany (January 6th) is past. Today we will take down our Christmas
tree. I reluctantly turned off the
lights last night. I know that it will
be next Christmas before I these lights will glow in the living room again.
Wide-awake in the middle of the
night, I decided to lie down on our family room couch to see if I could get
back to sleep. Initially, I laid my head
at one end of the sofa and then realized that there was light coming through
the windows and resting on the other side of the sofa. “It must be a full moon,” I thought. I turned around to put my head at the other
end of the sofa so the soft, gentle moonlight would rest on my face and upper
torso. As I closed my eyes, I thought of
the reflection that I recently read that compared Mary’s reflecting the love of
Jesus, like the moon reflecting the light of the sun. When I woke 90 minutes later, the moonlight
was gone and it was time to begin my day.
As I
drove my son to his carpool early this morning, I noticed the pink sky as I
drove home - a reminder that the days are lengthening, although we are in the
middle of winter. Each day brings us closer
to spring.
How fortunate I am to be surrounded by light
today: the colorful, beautiful lights of a Christmas tree, celebrating the
birth of Jesus, the gentle light of a full moon in the middle of the night,
reminding me of Mary and then the sun rising just a little earlier each day in
the midst of winter.
I
simply ask that I might be a light to others today.
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