Been a busy week and I’m looking at another busy one with my brother and his family flying in, more coding and a slew of other things on my plate. — But being busy feels good. I even got to see Cel this week — hadn’t seen her in almost 6 years!

Well probably next week I’ll have a new podcast up as well as parts 3 & 4 of the Blogging Series.

We recently read the Hold On, Hang On!—Don’t Give Up! compilation. Worth your time if you haven’t read it recently. It reminded me of a story told by Grandmother in Meditation Moments which was an encouragement to me as i read it today. I’m including it here for you to read.

“The Lord will lighten my darkness.” And then I found a little clipping by Francis E. Seaworth, and he was saying, “One late afternoon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, wanting to be alone, I entered a strange cathedral and sat down amid the silence and semi-darkness.

“It was a gloomy place at that hour. Had I known that I was in the House of God I should not have cared to be there. The windows were especially foreboding. Presently, a caretaker approached me, and thinking he wished me to leave so that he could lock up, I started to go.

“‘Oh no,’ he whispered, ‘Don’t go until the lights come on!’ So I waited. The room became darker, the shadows deepened, the windows were ugly and repelling and I wanted so much to leave. Then suddenly the street lights came on in full and the whole scene was changed!

“What a transformation! I thought I had never seen such exquisite coloring, such Heavenly suggestiveness as the windows gave forth in their wonderful coloring! Everything was enhanced with unearthly beauty that bed my soul, and I wanted to capture and keep it forever.

“Then I thought of the darkness which had shrouded many times my spirit, and how inexplicably it can vanish with the joy of the Lord coming in and His light flooding the soul. ‘The Lord will lighten my darkness’! I had learned a secret from that old caretaker, yes I had! — Don’t go until the lights come on!

(Wait for the Light - Meditiation Moments #18)