Friday... The lights are really significant. They really are. I lived in El Paso, Texas for a bit and I loved the Luminaries there at Christmas. The Luminaries are a Mexican tradition where they place a lighted candle in sand in a sack to symbolize lighting the way to the manger. At the church where I was the Youth Pastor, we put out hundreds of Luminaries on Christmas Eve. The whole town was lit up with Luminaries. It was so beautiful. We this year have Luminaries on our walkway leading up to a nativity outside our front door. They are really significant to us. The lights of Christmas as so beautiful. We on the street of our new community have started the tradition of lights on and around our houses. And the Christmas lights are really significant. Our outsides are dark during the year but are lit up at Christmas. Look at what 1 Peter 2:9b (NLT) says, "you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light." Oh I know that the...
A positive reflection for a new day...