A few nights ago, I had a time to hang out with some friends. While a girls night out can be fun, a girls night in can be as well. Especially, when you can just light a bunch of candles, pull out all sorts of munchies, and just spread out with comfy blankets, pillows, and no shoes.
So, for about six hours last night, I enjoyed a time of friendship. We each had had some discouraging things happen this last week. A snowball effect seemed to take over, one discouragement led to another, a stress to trigger another, until even good things seems impossible to deal with. Hope, in those moments, can be something that acts like the candles that were around us. Each flame is something that seems so fragile, one moment with a snuffer and the flame dips, sputters, and then we are left watching a trail of smoke.
However, when we finished up our time that night, there was one candle which just didn’t want to go out. Each time I dipped the snuffer in, it remained lit. I found myself realizing that our hope was much the same way. A giant candle hope snuffer had come and sat on our heads this last week. The flame had sputtered. But, when the snuffer was removed, the fuel of oxygen hit the flame and it flared back up to light the dark around it.
Such a difference a little light can make in the dark. Keep your hope close, celebrate it.
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