When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of
life.” (John 8: 12)
“Walking in darkness” conjures up several thoughts and images: being alone, scared, cold, in danger, not to mention more sinister images of secrecy, conspiracy, and ignorance. Once these things are “brought into the light,” they lose their power and hold over us. If we cling to them, they keep us in darkness and separate us from the truth, from God.
By keeping the light of Jesus burning within us, through daily awareness of - and gratitude for - his truth, we can move forward unafraid, no matter how vast and foreboding the darkness of the world may appear.
An excerpt from a Scottish blessing:
May the blessing of light be on you - light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire, so that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may light shine out of the two eyes of you, like a candle set in the window of a house, bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm.
Jennifer Beckett
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