Lights, lights, lights. ‘Tis the season: Christmas lights on trees, wreaths, houses, and stores. This, of course, triggered my thinking: What is light? Literally. Figuratively.
What is darkness? Well, except for the obvious contrast, maybe the latter will have to be explored at another time!
Light? Immediately, I connected the light theme with Scripture. Jesus claimed, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life” (John 8:12).
Hmm. I’ve always found this phrase, “light of life”, to be a curious expression. John 1:4 says, “In him was life; and the life was the light of men”. Life’s light; Light’s life.
I need to explore. But I can only do so if I slow down in my cluttered busyness to “be still” and learn to “know” something of what is available to be known. Research creates another kind of clutter. Out come stacks of books, spread all over our dining room table! Oh, no! Not much time! Must clean this up by tomorrow! So, here is what happened:
Journey North Character 