Upon awakening in a hotel room that was as dark as a
moonless night, I delighted to see the outside light shining underneath the
pinch-pleated, room-darkening drapes. I smiled as I also noticed the bit of
electric light slipping through the space around the edges of the bathroom
door. I eased out of bed, reached for my cell phone that was on the nightstand,
and took a picture.
Upon hearing the snap of the shutter, my sleepy husband
mumbled, “What are you taking pictures of?”
“The light! I love it!”
He groaned and rolled over in the bed. Knowing he wasn’t
loving the light as much as I was, I snapped only three or four pictures before
entering the bathroom to shower and dress for the trip home. In that room there
was abundant light!
I wasn’t sure what the “message” about the light would be,
but I knew it would come to me. Sure enough, it came the following morning as I
busied myself in the kitchen. It was in the words of an old song, “The Light of
the World is Jesus,” written by Philip P. Bliss in 1895. All I could remember
of it was the refrain:
Come to the light, ‘tis shining for thee;
Sweetly the light has dawned upon me.
Once I was blind, but now I can see:
The Light of the world is Jesus!
I realized anew that by continually coming to Jesus, I can
have as much light for life’s journey as I want. Although there’s much darkness
(evil, sadness, suffering, etc.) in this world, there’s light available for the
journey, if only I will open the door to my heart and pull back the “drapes” of
my mind to receive His light. How much light I have to walk by depends on how
wide I open myself to Him, how eager I am to walk in the light instead of
stumble around in the darkness. Dear Reader, let’s come to the Light. It’s
shining for us!!!
©2015 by
Johnnie Ann Gaskill
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