As December approaches, and Christmas with it, our community will suddenly be ablaze with light. Lights strung across dorm rooms, wrapped around trees, falling like icicles on windows and even illuminating holy spaces with candles. Lights of all kinds bring solace when finals pile up and the hope of a break seems distant. And that’s the nature of light. It always gives you perspective when you could fall into darkness. It’s like a gift. The kind of gift that “will be with you when all other lights go out.”
Christians around the world will celebrate Jesus, who we call the light of the world, because during this season of light he brings us gifts that money can’t buy: peace, hope, joy & love.
As the sky gets dark and the lights come on, I hope you can find the same solace. That the gift of light will illuminate your life and show you your own capacity to offer gifts money can’t buy. And in that collective discovery, I believe our communities will not only see the light but feel its warmth.