Let your light shine
Day 476, Sunday, Nov. 30
Luke Chapter 10 – 11:36
We’re in the time of year when it gets dark earlier every day—about a month from the shortest day of the year. It’s natural in this season to think of the contrast of light and darkness.
Jesus contemplates light and darkness in the last part of today’s reading, telling us to let our light shine so that others may see it.
“See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it is dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.”

-Rev. Mark Fleming

Sunday meditation

Psalms 35:11-18
Ruthless witnesses come forward; they question me on things I know nothing about. They repay me evil for good and leave me like one bereaved. Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered, I went about mourning as though for my friend or brother. I bowed my head in grief as though weeping for my mother. But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; assailants gathered against me without my knowledge. They slandered me without ceasing. Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked; they gnashed their teeth at me.
How long, Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their ravages, my precious life from these lions. I will give you thanks in the great assembly; among the throngs I will praise you.

Prayer focus
Remove all darkness from me with your great light.