Daily Lesson for February 16, 2015

Today's daily lesson comes from John 1 verses 4 and 5:

"In him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it."

Last week a good friend and wise counselor of mine and so many others passed away. At the memorial service there was a time for bearing witness, as one by one friends and loved ones stood up to speak and say what he meant to us. What was said again again was that this man was for us, and that he taught us that there was something good and holy, something of God, inside us which was waiting to be believed and then discovered. 

Rufus Jones and others from the Quaker tradition teach that there is something divine in every human soul.  They call this the "Inner Light".

The Inner Light cannot always be seen; and without it being seen, it is even harder to be believed. This is why God sends us holy people like my friend into our lives, people who walk in and see others through the light of their own lives.  By their own Inner Light they see the Inner Light in us, and help us to believe in it. 

And believing, we discover, is seeing.