Carrying My Candle

 

I gave up candy for Lent.  Forty days with no candy.  What was I thinking that close to Valentines Day?  It is going to be a stretch.  What I have been doing is reading my bible when I want a handful of M & M's.  This week I found myself reading from  John 1:5....and as I read it all I could think of was the song, Carry your Candle by Chris Rice.  The thing is....this year...I did not just give up something.  I took on something.  I have written a letter a day to someone who has touched my life spiritually and has picked me up when I have fallen.  It has been a real blessing to me to sit quietly and let my ink glide across the page of the paper I have chosen.    It has made me remember how much I love to write....with pen and ink.  There was a lesson here...pick up a pen.  I believe I will. 

2,000 years ago, the Apostle John wrote, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5, NAB). 

Carry Your Candle

There is a candle in every soul
Some brightly burning, some dark and cold
There is a Spirit who brings fire
Ignites a candle and makes His home

Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the hopeless, confused and torn
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world
Take your candle, and go light your world

Frustrated brother, see how he's tried to
Light his own candle some other way
See now your sister, she's been robbed and lied to
Still holds a candle without a flame.

Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the lonely, the tired and worn
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world
Take your candle, and go light your world

We are a family whose hearts are blazing
So let's raise our candles and light up the sky
Praying to our Father, in the name of Jesus
Make us a beacon in darkest times

Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the helpless, deceived and poor
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world

Carry your candle, run to the darkness
Seek out the hopeless, confused and torn
Hold out your candle for all to see it
Take your candle, and go light your world
Take your candle, and go light your world

 

Now, let me go light my candle and carry on.  God Bless You All!