August 14, 2020

​Hello Saints,

“One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leapt out – single stars, constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world.”(William S. Burroughs - 1954)

Some of you may remember the 1988 National Republican Convention speech by George H.W. Bush (whom the Europeans would later call “Bush the 1st”), where he used the phrase “ a thousand points of light.”  Now, while many thought this an original idea from his speech writers, the phrase was first used by William S. Burroughs in 1954.  While the concept was amazing, I am not so sure there was ever any real long term carry-through with the idea.  I think that the idea is still very appropriate for us today.  Especially today. We have always been called to be “like Christ”, not be Christ but like Christ.  We are to have the light of God shine through us.  Much like the moon actually gets its light from the sun, we get our light from God.  Each of us need only show the small amount of light we each have from God.  We each do not have to fix all the problems and cure all the ills of the world.  We each only need to show our little light.  It is through being in a community of Christ that we can become the bright, warming, illuminating and powerful light of God.  Imagine a dark room with only one candle. Now imagine the same room with 300 candles or a thousand candles.  All held on high.  The light and the warmth is over powering.  It is asking too much for a single person to light that entire room.  But as a community of believers each adding our own little light, we can be the light of God in that room and our world. Prayers that each of us may all show our little light.

​Blessings,
Pastor Carl
​08/14/20