Monday, April 9, 2007

sharing the fire of our candles

Ever notice at the Easter Vigil, how quickly every one's candle in the church get lite up?

For those of you that are not accustomed to Catholic Traditions and St-Mary's tradition,... at the Easter Vigil, a fire is lite on the steps of the church representing the life that Jesus is gives us,... then a large candle is lite which is the used on special occasions, and once this candle is brought in, we the people gathered in the church lite our candles from this fire. The procedure being that some people get to lite their candles directly from the large candle and then they in turn lite the other peoples candles and those people give light from their candles to other and so forth until every one's candle are lite.
Now, I was amazed at the vigil this year on how fast every one's candle were lite. I was thinking of how effective people were at sharing the light of the candle, in fact the light of Christ. No one thought of asking one another "do you want your candle lite?" "what do you think about your candle lite?", No one second guessed should I lite the others candle, how are they going to react if I offer to lite their candle, what will they think of me if I lite their candle, no one doubted their ability to lite the others... people just turned around and looked for candles that were un-lite and shared the fire of their candle with others.
No one thought about how it would affect them to share the fire or if it would weaken them. Actually, your candle burned higher and brighter once the other candle was lite. .... wow... if only we could be like this with the message of Christ to those around us.... Not second guessing ourselves, not doubting our ability, not wondering how the others are going to react,... just do it,... yes sometimes people will not be ready to lite their candles, some will already be lite, yet others will have been waiting for You to turn around and offer your light.
Jesus, please help he have the courage to speak up and share your light with those around me. Lets light up our world this Easter season.

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