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Good Morning,
Anyone who has lived in the state of Indiana for any amount of time knows what our winters
are like. They can be a bit of a downer. And, I am not talking necessarily about snow or even cold. Instead, I am talking about the grey.
Several years ago, a friend of mine, who had grown up most of his life in Florida, moved to Wabash, IN. As we were slogging through the first winter he experienced as a new Wabash
resident, he commented on the number of days in the winter where we do not really see the sun. Sure, the sun rises, but due to constant cloud cover, grey day flows into another grey day, and into another. Until I had that conversation, having been a life-long Hoosier, I had never really thought about how grey our winters can be. The fact of the matter is, many people in this part of the country experience some winter ‘blahs’ due to the lack of exposure to sunlight.
In the first nine verses of John chapter one, the word light shows up six times (in the NIV). Three of those six times it is capitalized, meaning it references Christ, Himself. Jesus Christ is the Light!
As we push through another grey Indiana winter, my hope is that each of us get to experience the Light that is Jesus Christ! As we gather in our homes for meals, as we gather in our churches for worship services, as we gather throughout our Yearly Meeting for youth events, Committee Days or discussions…may we experience the Light of Jesus Christ. Perhaps as we center in to the Light of Jesus, these grey winter days will not seem so grey!
-Pat Byers
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