Layoffs
Mortgage payments
The world seems to be getting darker.
Here in the middle of Lent, we have all been thrown into what feels like ever encroaching darkness.
Many of us have not had to weather something like this.
Many of us do not have a safety net to catch us if the wind blows too hard.
The panic button has been pushed.
Or maybe its moments from being pushed.
Or maybe we're too busy keeping shit together to push the button.
But... we feel it.
We yearn for light.
Shepherds on the hills of Bethlehem yearned for light.
Mary weeping at the foot of her son's cross yearned for light.
Refugees and outcasts yearn for light.
And light came.
A light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.
The lighthouse stand tall on the cliff as the storm wages on in our seas.
It is hope. Land is near.
It is guidance. Land is in this direction.
It is warning. Watch for rocks nearby.
The light can silence the panic, the lizard brain that pushes us to the paranoid and irrational.
It does not take much light to dispel the darkness around us.
Small acts to restore our faith in humanity.
Warm stories to remind us of the good in the world.
A letter or a text of encouragement.
Tiny candles that can illuminate the whole darkness of our day.
We can grab hold of the light and reflect it back out to sea, to those who need it.
Today. I'm looking towards the light and sailing towards it.
God, lead me.
God, grant me peace.
God, be grace that fills the gaps of everything I didn't do right today...
God, help me not lose it right now
God, you are bigger than this and all of us are in your hands.
I'm letting myself be calmed in spite of news and emails and a "constantly changing situation" Steady. The light doesn't move. The sea is tossing me. But the light doesn't move. God is there.
And best I can, I'm going to try to pull out my mirror and reflect that light further out to sea.
I know there are people who need it right now.
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