you are light

Dear Friends,

Tonight is Christmas Eve. This is the season when the light comes into the dark. The longest nights have just passed and the light is already coming more quickly into the sky.

Even if you are in a dark time of life, a sad and lonely time, remember this: you are the light of the world. Jesus said this: "You are the light of the world."

If you are light, if I am light, then we are the ones to bring the light into the world. How do we do this?

Remember, first of all, that you are light. Even if this is the darkest time of your life, even if this time of darkness seems to have no end, remember that a light shines within you - and it is up to you to bring that light into the world, uncovered, so that others may see it.

Sometimes our history or our worries or our fears are the darkness, and they shadow the light.

The light is still shining, though, bravely and surely, beneath those brittle fears.
Let it shine!
Warmly,
meb