A Flicker of Light in the Darkness

I wanted to share with you something that happened to me yesterday. Quite surprisingly, I had a private message from someone who read my political blog two days ago - the one titled "I have met the enemy and it is me..." The reader said she loved my sense of humor and agreed with my philosophy and asked if I would write a blurb for their product, a paid gig! Of course, I agreed. She urged me to go to her husband's FaceBook page to get a sense of who he was. He is the CEO of the company. I read through several of his posts and then stopped short to see one of his posts with a quote I recognized...it was by...me.

He said he is not a Christian, and not at all religious, but he quoted the section where I talked about Jesus and the adultress, and how those without sin should cast the first stone. He said it floored him. I honestly wanted to cry with joy. My single most highest purpose in writing anything is to glorify God and draw others to Him. Lord knows I fail too often to enumerate, but this time, it appears, my writing had reached a target. I just want to encourage all of you, when you speak from the heart, with love, and truth, and bathe it in prayer, miracles can be wrought. So much seems dire in our nation today, in our world. It often feels like there is no hope and the decay is so advanced that all that is left is a spiral into the abyss. Yet God has always preserved a remnant, friends who share the vision of what we hope and trust to be holy and true. You just never know when your words might be the tiniest flicker of light in the darkness.

It was good I had that joy stored up, because early this morning, Mom K fell, completely broke her hip, and is in the hospital now with Arvo, awaiting verdict on surgery. Unfortunately, Asherel and I leave today for her State Destination Imagination contest. It is good to trust that the darkness is never absolute.

Isaiah 9:2 (NIV)
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.


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