Lighting it Up!

First of all, let me say how good it feels to be “back at it again.” After a four month hiatus from Prince of Peace, I’ve arrived home to a staff and a congregation busy doing the work of ministry. It hardly seems like I was away.

But I was gone and traveling quite a bit, and one of the things that happens when you travel is trying to figure out all the odds and ends of the actual journey and the lodging.

There’s always layovers and schedules and train lines and trams and taxis that you have to sort out. Then once you arrive there is the new room. And one of the things that I have noticed in my recent travel is the difficulty of trying to turn on and off the lights in the hotel room.

Sometimes there is a wall switch. Sometimes you have to leave your key card in a holder in the entry way for there to be power in the room. Sometimes each lamp has a switch. Sometimes that switch for the lamp can be on the wall or on the neck of the lamp or at the base of the lamp or on a switch on the cord to the lamp. And sometimes I just can’t figure it out and just go with the general lighting of the room.

Over the last four months, I’ve noticed that we have had trouble turning on the lights in our nation. We’ve had a lot of darkness and death and terror and uncertainty. Can’t we find some new ways to turn on the light? Can’t we sit down and talk to one another? Isn’t the church here to bring light into the darkness of the world.

I want to walk as a child of the light. I want to follow Jesus. God set the stars to give light to the world. The star of my life is Jesus. In him there is no darkness at all. The night and the day are both alike. The Lamb is the light of the city ofGod. Shine in my heart, Lord Jesus. Evangelical Lutheran Worship -- #81

See you in church soon – the place where we talk about Jesus as the light of the world.

In Christ,
Pastor John D. Morris