Light!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm rusty I must admit. Several years ago, I could blog multiple times a day and always come up with something new and insightful to say; but now drawing up the words seem like trying drink a milkshake through a straw that is just too thin. I know that you don't want to read blogs about my desire or inability to blog, that would win the lame blog of the year award! I do have some thoughts...

1:15 from the total lunar eclipse. Supposed to be the darkest night in like 400 and something years. On such a night I can't help but to think about the darkness of this world. The sins and temptations that lurk around every corner; the sin and temptation that lurks within our own fragile bodies. The darkness that closes around us, that takes away our ability to faithfully traverse the paths that God marks out for us; the darkness that makes it impossible to see and know our God. We see this darkness in the world around us: broken relationships, violence, hatred, murder, lies, deceit, greed, lust, pride, arrogance...this is the darkness of our world, and if we are totally honest with ourselves, this is the darkness of our lives.

Yet, we do not live in darkness; the darkness has been overcome by light...the light of our Savior. Christ's light penetrates into the darkest corners of our world, the darkest corners of our souls and He shines with love and grace and forgiveness. His light breaks forth and reveals the love of our God who took the sin of the world upon Him and experienced the cold darkness of the grave. God's light still comes to man today; His Holy Spirit to illumine our lives, to be a light unto our path, to defeat the darkness in our lives and draw us to faith and life, to shine through us as Christians so that we can take that light into this dark world.

I did one of my favorite things last night. I drove around and looked at Christmas lights. Some say looking at Christmas lights are for children, and I say "yes, they are for the children of God". Because they serve as a reminder of the coming of the Light of the World on Christmas morn; just a glimpse of light, but a witness to the world that Jesus is come, and the darkness will flee.

Perfect timing on the radio, "Light of the world, you came down into darkness..." God is good, have a Merry Christmas!