Let Your Light Shine

 

Light is so important in our lives. I wonder what it would be to live without it for months at a time in Alaska. I remember being in Meramec Caverns somewhere in the South, in a deep cavern made into an auditorium. 

 

We sat on bleachers cut into the caveside, and there was a formation on the other side of the cave. They played a light show against the opposite wall with music playing. There were lights on around the bleachers. For the finale, a US flag, a huge one was displayed on the rock formation which they called the Curtain. It was like a curtain with folds of rock going high to the roof of the cage to the floor below us. The National Anthem began to play and the audience all stood. 

 

At the end, before anyone sat down, every light in the place went out. You talk about dark! The announcer said, “Don’t anyone move. We have not lost power. It will be back on momentarily. We just like to show our audiences what real dark is like.” They almost lost me. I grabbed my hubby’s arm and hung on. When I think about that darkness now, I think of all the references in the Bible that speak about light. In Sunday School we sang so often: This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…