Light is a wonderful thing. It bends, travels, warms and glows. It would be a sad life without it for me. I enjoy bright colors, sunny days and that "curl up like a sleeping cat" feeling when the sunlight comes through the window in winter.

The down side of light it that you can't hide things in the light. DUST! (Glares its ugly head) CLUTTER! (Go away bad dream, BOO!) I try to choose to enjoy the light and not let the other thing get me down until I can take care of the monsters.

I have been thinking about the fact that light bends. There is the spot light that obviously puts light in one spot. Hence the name. But even at that some of the light seems to seep out around the edges and nudge the darkness back just a little more. Light does what is is supposed to do.

Now for the applications. When light is shown on some big terrible thing, we look at it and say how bad, disgusting and horrible that thing is. But if we look at the nature of light, it doesn't just illuminate that one huge terrible thing we are all looking at and despising. Some of the light will spill over on us and press against that dark things that need to be uncovered in us. If we look, it will show us something about ourselves. Yes, the big terrible thing needs fixing and exposure, but maybe we should open our eyes to see what we can see about ourselves and other things around that the light exposes. Attitudes, lack of love for others and maybe more......

I don't want to shrink back into more darkness and away from the light. I want to embrace the light that comes my way.

Wow! what a wonderful holiday time. Family and friends. It was so good just being with our family and spending time together.

At the start of the new year, I always remember the joke my Dad tells. He turns around several times and then asks someone what he is doing. When they don't know, he tells then he is making his new year revolutions. Get it...turning around...revolutions. Ha!

I came across another thought about the new year and resolutions today. In the Bible we don't hear much about the resolve of people. Sure Joshua made the declaration about himself and his house and we can sight many more. But, the thing we hear the most about is what these people did. Our resolve can be as good as gold. We can state it, proclaim it to the world and even put it in a written form. But we still must remember the early followers of Christ and what was said about them. It is not the "Resolutions of the Apostles" it is the "Acts of the Apostles".

Dear Lord, let me have more "acts" this year.