Keep The Lights On

As a child, after being tucked in, read to, and sung to, the lights were turned off and my parents would close the door, almost. It would always be left open a little and we would say keep the lights on. The glow of the hall light felt safer.
-Abba let us see your Light to feel safe

A newborn comes into the world just a little too early. Underdeveloped heart and lungs require some assistance. The delicate new life is placed in the incubator with special lights that keep the little one at the same temperature of the womb it has spent its entire life in.
- Abba keep the lights on when we are frail of heart and short of breath. Hold us in your Light

On a wild New Year’s Eve, the wildest winter storm we had experienced, we could not even see the road. Crawling along the highway we had our heads out the window trying to see anything that would indicate the road and keep us from driving into the ditch. The normal 10 minute drive on the country road took many times longer. Eventually, faintly, the high lamp by the barn was visible and we knew we were home. We were home and ready to join the party that had been planned in the warmth and light of the farmhouse.
-Abba you have kept the Light going through the storms we have fought our
way through and invited us in to join the celebration of living.

Lying out on the rooftop of the house on the Amalfi Coast, I could hear the sea, feel the wind and see the moonlight across the water. In the night the glow gave the scenery a new perspective from the sun of the day.
-Abba even in the night you keep the lights on and show us the beauty, draw
us into the peace and this soft glow of light is one of rest and tranquility.

Pure pressed olive oil for light, to keep the lamp burning continually in the house – the tabernacle.
Ten bridesmaids took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of those lamps ran out of oil and they missed the party in this parable Jesus told.

Yeshua you are Light and you asked us to be light and salt in this place. Holy Spirit pour the oil into our lives as we open them to you. Light the soul lamp that lights the whole body and lets us be light. Keep the lights on so we can find the safe place in the dark, so we can have our own incubator when we’re frail, so we find our sanctuary in the wildness of life. And keep the lights on so we remember to rest, to see, to feel, to hear, to touch beauty. Keep the lights on so we will want your company. Keep the lights on till we get home.

Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually. Exodus 27:20