LIGHT
Daily Devotional
Daily Devotional
Cultivate the light within you each day this week.
January 10: Walking in the Light
- Scripture John 1:7 — But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another.
- Reflection: How does connection to people with shared values and ways of living and being support you? We don’t have to limit this understanding to people who identify with our faith tradition, though that is one deep way to connect. Yet God’s children know and show love in many ways.
Explore the idea of walking in fellowship and accountability as an aspect of putting Holy Love into practice. Who supports you in this way of living and being? Maybe it’s someone who you work or volunteer with? Maybe it’s someone you help or serve? Maybe it’s a teacher? Maybe it’s a friend or family member?
Conversely, who do you think you help support in their path? And what do people who have chosen different paths, who come from other cultures and faith traditions, have to share with you or teach you? - Spiritual Discipline: Thank someone for supporting you to grow and continue in a significant aspect of how you live your life.
SONGS:
- Walking in the Light of God performed by Angel City Chorale: https://youtu.be/QGOiANtGmhE?si=ASMHTIJqtBITHTCU
In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness, of spurious self-isolation in a special world, the world of renunciation and supposed holiness. The whole illusion of a separate holy existence is a dream. . . . This sense of liberation from an illusory difference was such a relief and such a joy to me that I almost laughed out loud. . . . I have the immense joy of being human, a member of a race in which God . . . became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. . . . Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed. — Thomas Merton
Jan 10 Daily Devotional