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woke up one November morning at 5:30 a.m. to go on an early morning walk. Since sunrise was over an hour away, it was still very dark outside. Everyone in my house was asleep, so I was doing my best to be quiet and respectful. I didn’t turn on any lights, so I had to cautiously grope through the darkness, down the hallway to the front of the house. When I reached the end of the hall, I saw a light shining in my office that I had never noticed before. A beam of blue light was shining on the wall. The light was coming from my desk. The door to the cabinet that houses my cable modem was slightly ajar. The blue power light on the modem was burning with such brilliance that it escaped through the crack in the door and shone brightly on the wall. It’s unfortunate that my modem light stays closed inside a cabinet all day long. It’s rarely ever seen. I thought about that saying of Jesus, “Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel” (Matthew 5:15). Light was created to be seen. It was the very first thing that God created when He made the Earth. I almost felt sorry for the little blue light on my modem. So, I opened the cabinet door, letting it illuminate more than just the small, cramped space inside the cabinet. That tiny, blue light shone with such radiance that it il-
luminated my entire office. So much so that I was able to find my keys and wallet without turning on any other overhead lights. I gave that tiny light a chance to do the thing it was created to do ... I gave it a chance to shine! Let me tell you about another little light I sometimes feel sorry for ... the refrigerator light. Talk about “hiding your light under a bushel!” That poor little light is constantly hidden. No one ever gives it any thought at all ... that is, until they want a glass of milk, or slice of cheese. Just think about that little light for a moment. Its whole purpose in life is to shine only for a moment ... when the refrigerator door is opened. For the rest of its life, it hides in isolation behind the closed doors of the refrigerator. It doesn’t stay on all the time. If it did, perhaps it would feel a little less insignificant. The only time it gets a chance to shine is when we get hungry. But, aren’t you glad, that it’s there? My refrigerator light burnt out last year and it took me a week to get a new bulb. So, there were several days that we had no light in our refrigerator. I’d open the door and couldn’t see what I was reaching for. I was making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich one day and reached into the dark refrigerator to pull out the grape jelly. When I got to the counter to make my sandwich, it was then that I discovered I had picked up a jar of dill
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