Friend,

Look at your left hand and think of all the people who love Jesus and identify as Christ followers and are living for Him. Keep thinking. Fill that hand up with faces and names.  Close your eyes if you must. Picture the pews. The people sitting in your small group or around your table. 

Look at your right hand and think of all the people who are far from Jesus and don’t identify as Christian. Keep thinking. Please try and think of 2-3 people. The less you know the less you engage with your community outside of the church. Fill that hand with faces and names. Close your eyes if you must. Picture the places you went yesterday and today. 

An author who I like to think we’d have been friends if we had the chance to know one another, wrote this, “if I understand the Gospel, it tells us that we are to spread the Good News to all four corners of the world, not limiting the giving of light to people who already have seen it, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.” (Madeleine L’Engle)

May mine and your light be so lovely today. This means it’s not hidden, but visible. Be it a candlelight or a bonfire. Just as long as the pilot light is on and there are flames to prove it.

With open hands of names,

Shauna