Back when I was doing a couple of hours of after school piano teaching most nights, I used to light this candle lantern by the front door to greet the children.
This week's chapter of '52 Tiny changes for a quieter Life' suggests lighting (or switching on!) a candle and just sitting still and watching the flame for a couple of minutes. Good idea! I'm looking at my battery operated candles to choose one. Some of them don't flicker, but the older ones do. They also have the advantage of a remote control to switch them on and off.
Meanwhile there is always our metal suncatcher to watch as it slowly twirls in the slight draught;
Simeon said 'He is a light to lighten the gentiles' when he saw the baby Jesus at the Temple,
Jesus said 'I am the Light'
John, in the very first chapter of his gospel wrote 'the Light came into the world, and that Light was life to all mankind'
and
'The Light came into the world, and the darkness conprehendeth it not'
(I'm quoting from memory... but I reckon I'm pretty close)
I love the triple meanings inside the word comprehend,
as in 'understand' or 'encompass' or 'include'.
Jesus, God the Father, the Holy Spirit as a Light, a lighthouse, a torch, an inner fire keeping me going...
Like a candle flame
Flickering small in our darkness
Uncreated light
Shines through infant eyes
God is with us, alleluia
God is with us, alleluia
Come to save us, alleluia
Come to save us
Alleluia!
Stars and angels sing
Yet the earth sleeps in shadows
Can this tiny spark
Set a world on fire?
Yet his light shall shine
From our lives, Spirit blazing
As we touch the flame
Of his holy fire
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