Monday, August 13, 2018

Dear God,

Every day in ordinary ways you speak to us of heavenly things.  Today I picked up a novel of short historical stories set at lighthouse stations.  As I began to read your message came through loud and clear.  We too are to be lighthouses.

Lighthouses, light in the darkness, a saving grace for those in peril, hope in uncertainty, lighthouses on the sea, lighthouses in the world.  I had to ask the questions.  Am I light in anybody's darkness?  Do I offer grace to those in peril?  Am I a bearer of hope in uncertain times?

Although the novel I read is mostly romance stories of lighthouse keepers, yet still it is a reminder first to watch for the light around me and second to be the light for someone else.

Gracious God,
you called yourself
the light
of the world.
You told us
to be
a light,
to not
hide it.
Help me
be a light
for someone else,
I pray.

Love, Andrea