BRIGHT AS DAY
Several years ago I was in Chicago. Exhausted from a long day at
a conference, I turned out the light in my hotel room and fell
asleep almost instantly. Sometime later I awoke to pitch-black
darkness. When I stood up to find the lamp, I tripped and cut my
chin. After frantic fumbling and much bleeding in the dark, I
finally located the light switch. The cut required five stitches.
Since then, when I travel, I never turn out the light without being
sure there is some source of minimal light from a hallway, from
under the curtain, or from a bathroom light left on.
The problem with darkness is that there is no direction, nothing
to get one’s bearings. But to God, “even the darkness is not dark .
. . and the night is bright as the day”! We need God to give us
direction in the darkness of despair, mourning, ailing health, or
just a life too busy.
When God came into the world as Jesus, he was a Light to all.
Life with Christ can be bright as the day, and our burdens can be
light. Then we can share the Good News, and our light can shine
before others that they may see our good works and know him also.
Dear Jesus, shine into our lives so that our night becomes bright
as day. Make our light guide others from darkness to your Light.
Dr. Eunice Doman Myers
