LIT CANDLES We keep candles in our homes in case of power failures, for prayer or to create a cozy atmosphere or simply for their beauty. Their real purpose is and has always been to dispel darkness and in doing so bring comfort and reassurance to us in physical darkness. We are all familiar with the Christophersa motto. aIt is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.a In South Africa before apartheid was abolished, people would light a candle and place it in a window as a sign of hope, that one day this evil would be overcome. It soon was declared illegal, as illegal as carrying a gun. The village children would laugh and say, aThe government is afraid of candles.a Things did get better for them as a people with the end of apartheid after the long years of darkness. It is an appalling sense of darkness we encounter whenever there is a diagnosis of illness that completely re-directs our lives and wipes out our plans for our lives as well as our future. If ever there is a time in our lives we need this darkness dispelled it is in this bewildering place. So many of us have given up our loved ones to cancer, but there is a candle lit and it was lit by a doctor at a cancer facility and there is light in his words:They are builders with the gift of structuring their families as well as their workplace. ... decorators who are gifted with insights on how to enhance an interior to make it comfortable as well as attractive in the home as well as the workplace.
Title | : | REFLECTIONS OF ONE SMALL CANDLE |
Author | : | Gertie Mayeux |
Publisher | : | AuthorHouse - 2012-09-18 |
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