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Scaring Away the Dark with my Glow in the Dark-ness
Not looking for monsters under my bed
or skeletons in my closet.
I’m looking around.
Trying to make my deposit.
Bring the light over here.
There’s darkness all around,
Being loud, Being bold,
Shouting down, I can’t be told.
No need to raise my voice,
The darkness nearest me
Is within whispering distance,
It can hear me,
It can see me.
Because I glow in the dark.
Not a flashlight,
Not a cell phone,
Not a glow stick,
Or a ghost.
I’m a natural phenomenon.
No need to flip my switch.
Not an app,
or a fossil fuel,
My power’s clean,
got a renewable source.
Tech can’t touch me,
Dark can’t quench me,
Solar powered,
I’m on course.
I can radiate
into any darkness,
any pain.
I’m not afraid.
Don’t want to clench it,
Don’t want to hold it,
Can’t outrun it,
It’s closing in.
I just wanna bring my glow,
into depths and canyons,
places dim
and dark
and cold.
With the sunrise, I’ll
fuel up again,
warmth and welcome
making me
bold.
I’ve got a Son-powered fuel source,
free for the asking,
the Man who deals it,
He’s my best friend.
It’s no secret,
No need to hide it,
I blend nicely
in the light of day.
Only when dusk comes,
and darkness moves on in,
When the monsters creep,
I come out, too,
Can’t quite believe it,
But hey, look and see!
My fingertips, they’re alight!
Not only that,
but so is the
rest of me!
Darkness hides its eyes,
Monsters shrink away,
Quivering, quaking,
fear overtaking.
Run away,
coward,
go.
Guardrails for the Christian Life
Early on, the life of faith looks beautiful in the distance, but very confining up close. So many rules. So many prohibitions. So many boundaries. But the guardrails prevent us from experiencing the consequences of the natural laws during our early learning.
But our persistence pays off. Maturity is unconcerned with guardrails, only the beauty in the distance. We have one who guards before and behind, to the right and to the left.
“I have come, not to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to fulfill them.” ~ Matthew 5:17