Our power was out for 6 hours recently. In the three years we've been here, the power has gone out a few times but never for more than an hour or so. Since this most recent outage happened at night, we were immediately thrown into pitch black. Fortunately we knew right where our flashlights were. We also got to test the battery powered lanterns we bought last year. We had a large stash of batteries. We were pretty well prepared. And it was almost time to go to bed anyway, so it wasn't a huge problem. We were very thankful when the electricity came back on early the next morning.
These lanterns have three different settings so you can regulate the amount of light. This got me to thinking about the light that comes into our lives from Christ and living His gospel. We can control how much light we have and how much light we radiate to others by the amount of effort we put into our discipleship and the depth of the relationship we develop with Jesus Christ.
Sometimes we don't realize we have the switch "set to low" and much more light is available to us. We can up the amount of light in our lives by increasing prayer, scripture study, and service and getting to know Christ and Heavenly better. When we do those things, we can see and feel the increased light in our lives - and others can see more light also. The thing that's wonderful about this is that we're not limited to three settings like these lanterns. The light in our lives can increase infinitely - something that's totally awesome.
This train of thought must have been on my mind. Click here for a post I wrote a few days before our power outage.
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