Look to the Light

There's a picture in my mind, and I'm sure it's not just my vision alone. It's a dark night on a two-lane country road. The air is sleet-frosty. The pavement is slick. It's black everywhere, but the headlights of the car cast light on the shoulder of the road and create shadows on a mystical forest. A sharp curve ahead causes the car to slow down a bit when out of the mystical forest leaps a deer. It lands in the middle of the road on four light feet and freezes, not because it's cold, but because it looks to the headlights of the car. Cut. 

Scene two. Long brown hair flies and bare feet pat across the wooden floor. Bella runs through the living room into the dark bedroom towards the bathroom. With a rapid fire click she passes the light switch and baths the dark bedroom in light and passes through the bathroom door. Click. The light goes on in the dressing area. Click. The light turns on in the "water closet". Flush. She's up and running back into the living room racing to see the last fifteen minutes of a Sponge Bob Square Pants she has memorized, leaving a wake of light in her path. Light floods the house so quickly no one even  bothers to discuss fear of darkness. When you're six, it's just about problem solved. Lights on.

It's 7:40AM and the car, headed for Midtown Cycles, pulls into the lakefront parking lot. I jump out for a quick picture. Something has drawn me off the routine path to work. It's the morning light. It slants across Lake Toho making all things in its path appear surreal. The world in 3D glows and all creatures are outlined in brilliance. I take a few quick shots, hoping at least one of them is decent, get back into the car and head to the shop. Light floods the earth. Flood lights.

The days are shorter now, and I fall asleep earlier in the evening. I start counting the minutes down to the shortest day of the year, not with gloom because the days are getting shorter but with joy because we're almost over the hump of darkdom, an infusion of light is just around the corner. Lighten up!

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:5

Peace. Love, Linda