"Consider another fact: people feel more comfortable with lighting from many sources. Combinations of lighting add variety and vivacity to our lives. Contrasting mixtures of brightness and darkness cause dramatic and lively changes in our home ambiance. Uniform lighting is good for working, but it is boring. Blending light sources halts insipid monotony in our rooms and in our lives. Selecting from a gentle radiance, a warm glow, to a bright, intense light involves understanding the effects of lighting on our emotions."
Have you ever felt like your walk with the Lord was stale, lacking in fresh contact with Him. I do think that we get stuck in spiritual habit-ruts and just spin our wheels until we get frustrated or bored. We know that the presence and reality of our heavenly Father is full of light. Perhaps our problem is that we need variation in how we stand in that light. He is the one true light but we can experience His light in so many ways...from a spontaneous walk through the woods to private meditation on a passage of scripture to times of intimate conversation with Him to times of singing and expressing in voice our love for Father and Son. We've just painted a few rooms in our new house and now, instead of walls that are all the same white tone we have degrees of blend and contrast as light reflects off the same walls. Perhaps we need to find new ways to introduce the Lord's light and to bask in His warmth.
Job 17:11 My days are past,
My purposes are broken off,
Even the thoughts of my heart.
12 They change the night into day;
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
blessings,
Rob Smith
http://2daysthought.blogspot.com/
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