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a healthy church...transformingLIFE |
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A world without light? Can't imagine it! We have the sun by day and the moon by night, and in between we make our own light. Always have done, since the earliest cave-dwellers with their flaming torches and oil lamps. 21st century dwellers demand instant light around the clock. Sometimes it's hard to see the stars in the sky because of 'light pollution' over large cities. Recently I was reading about Nicolas Tesla. (Who, you ask?) Next year there will be a theatre production in Hobart, about this unassuming man who envisaged and developed the first high-frequency, high-voltage lighting. He amazed the world with his spectacular lighting display at the 1893 Chicago Exhibition, using alternating current, which incidentally had been opposed by scientists such as Kelvin and Edison. (He also helped harness the power of Niagara Falls, but that is another story.) The Age of Light had begun and the future looked bright - if you'll pardon the pun. But these are gloomy days we now live in, in a shrunken world. Man-made lighting struggles to shine in the dark corners of souls and hearts. We yearn for 'a light which shines in darkness', and which the darkness cannot extinguish. But the Psalmist says 'in your light we see light.' Psalm 36.9. Let The Light in this Christmas. Let's go for the highest wattage there is, God's Home Brand! May Light and Peace be with you this Christmas Season. Sheelagh Wegman |
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