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Letting the Light In: Jesus as the Light of the World
Every Christmas Eve, our neighbors line the cul-de-sac with white waxed paper bags cupping real candles. Even though we travel on Christmas Eve, we too purchased enough sacs and candles to ring our driveway and property. My son sets the candles out early in the day, and as dusk arrives, a generous neighbor lights each wick, while my family and I eat cheese and crackers an hour away. I forget about the candles every year on the drive home, and it always elicits a gasp and a surprise when we arrive on our street late in the evening to find the homes wrapped in a warm glow. As the night wears on, one by one, the lights flicker out and the street dims as candles sputter. The trees wrapped in twinkle lights shut off, and like every other night of the year, our homes sleep in the dark once more.
This time of year, I love to watch period films. They’re often set in a time where candles and oil lamps are the only source of light in the home. For centuries, families lived and loved in the dim glow of flames—from birth to death and everything in between—much of life was spent fumbling around in the dark. In the series, Cranford, a personal favorite, a man requires emergency surgery to set a fractured bone after an accident.
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