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Monday, Nov 30, 2015. The advent season has started. We hear about the great light, which is coming in and with Jesus. What is this light about? What is it that is making our heart and our mind bright and clear? What kind of “standard” answers do we know? And what is touching our heart and our mind, what is touching deep truth which help us to understand our world in a better way? What is giving us the light of life?

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His light …

Why is Jesus a light to me? What is this light? Sometimes you listen to people talking about Jesus, but it does not make your heart joyful - nor does it help you to see your failures and guilt in his light. But there is more, when we meet him. He is true light, light for our soul!

To me, the story of the gospels is a bright light. God comes into this world: as a baby. Some might say, that it is a crazy story. But it is a story full of wisdom. God is showing us, how to think, how to take care. He is coming in weakness. he is coming in full solidarity with all mankind. He is coming as an infant, into a poor family, just as poor as we are.

Jesus himself pointed to the Old Testament images of light and darkness, when he started to preach about the kingdom of God:

12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. 13 And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles— 16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.” 17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying,

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“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

(Matthew 4, 12-17)

Light of my heart …

He is light when he comes to comfort my heart. He is my light, when I start to see his humanity, his gentleness, his kindness. He comes as a human, as a child, as a young man, as the carpenter, but also as the preacher, as the one who guides, but not through power, but through the word and the spirit. John calls Jesus “the word”. And he died at the cross, he was dead, and he rose again, becoming the lamb of God, the risen son, the first of a new creation.

Some might feel: the light is too bright, I cannot believe it. Is the light too hard for me? Is his grace too much? Is it too hard to see that God, the eternal creator, made humans, and wants to be with them? That he became a baby, to talk to us? That he sais: see, I am with you, you can trust me? Do we understand what love will do? Do we understand freedom, and salvation? Sin put to death, and new life created? Is his light the light of my heart already?

My perception is that he is the only light, and he can be the light of my heart. I need him, I need this light. Again and again, when I feel weak and depressed. When the problems of this world try to overcome me. Then, I need him to be my light and my strength. And he is … thank you! (RWEP) ... more texts

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