Good morning and happy 2010!
This Sunday is crisp, clear, and cold, but a day to be thankful for.
As we begin this new year on Epiphany Sunday, the day we celebrate when the "we 3" kings followed the star to give gifts to the baby Jesus, we come into a time of hope.
And light.
Our sermon today is all about light.
Light is needed for sustenance and only very few creatures live fully in shadow.
Plants grow towards the light.
Plants grow fuller and richer with light.
Even my sister was told to go outside more for vitamin D and other
health benefits that only light can give.
We each have a light inside of us.
We also have a star we can choose to follow.
How are you going to spend this new year?
Are you going to follow the "light of the world?"
Are you going to live in the light?
Are you going to be the light to someone else?
Living filled with and surrounded by light brings hope.
Brings joy, peace, and love.
Perhaps your world is filled with darkness and you cannot see the light.
Maybe you have been told you cannot have the light.
You can.
There is a place where the light shines and the darkness cannot overcome it.
This is a place where we want to help nourish your light.
As we begin a new year filled with new choices, may you choose light over darkness.
May you choose hope over despair, joy over sadness.
May you choose love, so we may all live in a world of peace.
Truly,
Virginia Yates
This Sunday is crisp, clear, and cold, but a day to be thankful for.
As we begin this new year on Epiphany Sunday, the day we celebrate when the "we 3" kings followed the star to give gifts to the baby Jesus, we come into a time of hope.
And light.
Our sermon today is all about light.
Light is needed for sustenance and only very few creatures live fully in shadow.
Plants grow towards the light.
Plants grow fuller and richer with light.
Even my sister was told to go outside more for vitamin D and other
health benefits that only light can give.
We each have a light inside of us.
We also have a star we can choose to follow.
How are you going to spend this new year?
Are you going to follow the "light of the world?"
Are you going to live in the light?
Are you going to be the light to someone else?
Living filled with and surrounded by light brings hope.
Brings joy, peace, and love.
Perhaps your world is filled with darkness and you cannot see the light.
Maybe you have been told you cannot have the light.
You can.
There is a place where the light shines and the darkness cannot overcome it.
This is a place where we want to help nourish your light.
As we begin a new year filled with new choices, may you choose light over darkness.
May you choose hope over despair, joy over sadness.
May you choose love, so we may all live in a world of peace.
Truly,
Virginia Yates
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