Friday 21 September, 2007       subscribe | unsubscribe | respond | prayer | archive

 

Switch on the light

by Elizabeth Price

 

Tiny fragments of glitter nestled in the floral tablecloth, so small you did not notice them.  The craft works had been tidied away and the cloth had already been shaken out.  But, against all the odds, the tiny fragments of glitter were still there.

 

There were minute dustings of all the colours of the rainbow if you caught them at the correct angle.  They became illuminated streamers, some as long as your index finger.  There were candle-glows, triangles and moons, all according to the angle of your vision and all a dream of glittering colour. 

 

However, if you moved your head a fraction too far from the line of the overhead light, they disappeared.  Obviously, they took on life only in relation to the greater light above them and without it, they disappeared into oblivion.

 

To experience a life of design, colour and beauty, one has to switch on the light.

 

“In Him was life and

that life was the light of mankind.”

John 1:4

 

It’s a light worth switching on, don’t you think?

 

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