​The Runaway Lights

It was a bright, chilly November morning and the gift of a new day lay ahead.

I went downstairs ready to commence my day, when suddenly I heard a crash,

had something smashed? What calamity was this?

I descended to the hallway and looked around. Nothing.  I poked my head in the dining  room. Nothing.

I checked the kitchen, still nothing.

Finally in the lounge I spotted a battery in the middle of the carpet.  Another battery lay tucked under

the chair. Another lay half way across the room, and so the plot thickened. When I saw casing for the batteries under the table the penny dropped. My twinkling string of decorative Christmas lights had vanished from the coffee table! Where had they gone?

I searched and found my Christmas lights strewn across the office floor, six meters away in another room! Why? How?

Georgie looked distinctly apologetic! The game was up!

My lights were intended for the lounge but were now poised to shine elsewhere.

I will make you a light for the gentiles Isa 42:6

In a similar way Jesus came as a light, not just to his own people, the Jews, but came to be a Light for all nations: which means all people, everyone, everywhere, the non-religious, the non-interested and the ‘nobody’. Are we sharing Christ’s light beyond the walls of Churchianity?

No one is too unimportant or insignificant to receive Jesus this Christmas.

With Love, Rev Gill x

I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles,

that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.  Acts 13:47