The Light in Our Darkness

Helen Keller once said, “I believe that life is given us so we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower, the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.” This is a pretty amazing message coming from a woman who lost her sight and her hearing to illness when she was nineteen months old. That meant communication was incredibly difficult for her, yet she became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Imagine what the world would be like if we all lived according to this message – to see the world as God’s love filling us completely. It is difficult to hate while being filled with God’s love. Just as Helen Keller cultivated a life of love with the help of her teacher and companion, Annie Sullivan, each one of us has the ability to cultivate a life of love by noticing ways to be present for others with simple offerings of time, fellowship, thoughtfulness, gifts, and gestures that say we see and appreciate each other. Shall we try it together?

Pastor Heather