BLOCKING THE LIGHT
It was the summer before I entered 6th grade when I joined several other boys at a friend’s house one afternoon. It was a beautiful day — bright and sunny, a gentle breeze was blowing, the birds were singing. We had gathered to view the total eclipse of the sun which was to occur that afternoon. We had put together several items that would allow us to see the eclipse without damaging our eyes, and we watched . . . and it seems funny that, as vividly as I remember that event, I don’t remember what that eclipse looked like. What I do remember is how a bright and beautiful day suddenly turned windy and cold and dark. The birds stopped singing. It felt very eerie. It wasn’t that the sun stopped shining. It was just that something had gotten in the way. How often is this true in our lives. How often are we, whom Jesus called “the light of…
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