Starlight

My phone is my mate.

When I bought it the advertising bumph stressed that the camera or cameras, 5 of them, were so good in low light that it would reveal the secrets of the night!

Wow

I was hooked!

And

As it happens, this camera is brilliant especially when it comes to astrophotography, photography involved in the imaging of the night sky.

The secrets of the night!

Hey

That started me thinking.

And

Started me reflecting.

I saw in my mind's eye the days where I was walking in darkness, in fact more than that, walking in the black of the night, the kind of thick darkness that depression and melancholy bring. I couldn't see where I was going, I didnt know what was in front of me, I was constantly in danger of falling and longed for some kind of light.

Anyone relate to that?

Yeah

Life

Life can be affected by all kinds of stuff

I didn't see the darkness coming. it crept up on my existence like a ghost from the depths of nowhere.

While in the depths of despair, the darkness helped me to resign from the Salvation Army, the darkness also took my liberty, my self esteem, my confidence and my trust in anything. I was left lifeless and cold.

And

Alone.

I have written and spoke many times since my healing and restoration about the role that hope played in my resuscitation.

And

This morning I feel compelled to write this for someone today.

Really listen to this scripture. Isaiah 9:2

"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in darkness a light has dawned."

I want to say to that person who is shrouded in that lurid and hopeless darkness this morning, that there is a light.

look for it right now.

look at it right now.

it is found in the face of a Saviour.

Who's birth we will soon be celebrating.

The light has come

Wow

Listen

There is a fresh start in that light, a new beginning.

There is healing and fixing in that light.

No amount of brokeness cannot be reconstructed in that light.

Hey

You are devoid of strength right now, you are broken and shattered, you are locked into a feeling that you feel will never leave you.

But.

For those living in darkness the light has come.

And

That means there is hope, a very real hope.

There are, as my phone camera promises, secrets of the night. I love it when I take a photo of the stars, and the sheer detail and illumination my camera gives.

There is sheer beauty in starlight

But it is no secret that there is a far greater light.

The light of a different way, a new beginning and a fresh vision of life.

God light!

Come on, you can change this.

Letter to hope

Dear hope

I love you.

You only have positive expectations

You accompanied me into my darkest moments even though I didn't hear, see or feel you.

But

You were definitely there.

And

I have to say thank you for offering me your outstretched hand in my time of need.

I noticed some other things about you too.

You hold all the good things that are locked into my future. You carry strength like I have never seen. You have a steadiness and a calmness that exceed anything the world could ever offer up.

I should have believed in you quicker, I wish I had taken a hold of you sooner, but I didn't.

Yet

That's the thing

you still stayed close and promised to never leave no matter what.

and

You never left and never will

You offer another way, another approach, another chance always.

The healing properties you carry are boundless and are medicine to the sickness darkness causes.

you offer me a way out of the darkness.

You show me opportunities not despair.

You are my companion for life and I never realised

But

Now I know

And

I know you are real and present

Forever

You are so real

I love you.

Thank you

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