Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 8 verses 16 and 17:
16 ‘No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. 17For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nor is anything secret that will not become known and come to light.
Marianne Williamson once wrote:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.”
The light within us was meant to shine. It was given to us to be housed in the lamp of the human spirit. The lamp must be turned on, the spirit set free.
There is an artist in us who must paint. There is a poet in us who must write.
There is a dancer within us who must move.
There is a reformer in us who must organize and agitate and set the world afire.
The light shines in the darkness and darkness cannot overcome it. For light is the most powerful force in the world, strong enough to drive back all darkness and all fear and all the other things that keep us and this world from being what is intended.
And God says, “Let there be light.”
And I say, “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine . . .”
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