Reflect His Light

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Episode 89 - Reflect His Light

Cydni: [00:00:00] Maybe you've noticed lines have gotten longer and your patience shorter. The days have gotten darker and your chaos more chaos y. Your bank account a little smaller and you're jolly jolly less.

Sher: So we invite you to join us and pause. 

Cydni: Remember this isn't a season of must haves, to dos, and next day shipping.

Sher: It's the season to reflect and to remember our Redeemer. 

Cydni: To recall, rejoice, and reverence in the light of the world's message. 

Sher: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

Cydni: This is Cydni, 

Sher: and I'm Sher, and we invite you to join us for a few minutes each Tuesday and Thursday in December. For a special Christmas message 

Cydni: to make your Christmas a little more [00:01:00] Christmassy 

In a certain town there lived a very honest cobbler called Martin. He lived in a tiny basement room. Its only window looked out onto the street. Of the passerby, all he could see was their feet. But since there was hardly a pair of boots or shoes that had not passed through his hand at one time or another for repair, Martin was able to identify the passerby by looking at their shoes.

 But life had been hard on Martin. His wife died, leaving him with a young son. However, no sooner had the son reach the age when he could be of help to his father, than he fell ill and died. Martin buried him and gave way to despair, taking to the bottle at the same time. He gave up the practice of his religion, but one day an old friend of his dropped in.

 Martin poured out his soul to him. At the end of it, his friend advised him to do a little reading from the Gospels each day, promising that if he did so, light and hope would come back [00:02:00] into his life.

Where love is, there God is also. Where love is not. We are called to make the appropriate sacrifices to go out of our way to put it there. Martin took his friend's advice. At the end of each day, he would take down the Gospels from the shelf and read a little. At first, he meant only to read on Sundays, but he found it so interesting that he soon read every day.

Slowly, his life changed. He gave up drink. The words of Christ created new hope for him, and the deeds of Christ were like lights 

Sher: One night as Martin set reading, he thought he heard someone calling him. He listened and heard clearly, Martin, Martin, look out into the street tomorrow, for I will come to visit you. He looked around the tiny room and since there was no one to be seen, he reckoned it must be the Lord himself who had spoken to him.

 So it was with a great sense of excitement that he set down to his work the next day as he [00:03:00] worked He kept a close eye on the window. He was looking for something or someone special, but nothing exciting happened Just the usual people pass by going about their everyday business.

Cydni: The day wore on and nobody special passed by. In the early afternoon he saw a pair of old boots that were very familiar to him. They belonged to an old soldier called Stephen. Going to the window he looked up and saw the old man hitting his hands together for it was bitterly cold outside. Martin wished that he would move on, for he was afraid he might obstruct his view, that he would not see the Lord when he passed, but old Stephen just stood there by the railing.

Finally it occurred to Martin that maybe Stephen had nothing to eat all day, so he tapped on the window and beckoned him to come in. sat him by the fire and gave him tea and bread. Stephen was most grateful. He said he hadn't eaten for two whole days, as he left, Martin gave him his second overcoat as a shield against the bitter [00:04:00] cold.

Sher: But all the time Martin was entertaining Stephen, he had not forgotten the window. Every time a shadow fell on it, he looked up, but nobody extraordinary passed. Night fell. Martin finished his work and very reluctantly closed the window shutters. After supper, he took down the Gospels, and as was his custom, he opened the Gospels and read at random.

After reading for some time, Martin put down the book and reflected. The words of the Lord came to him. I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was naked, and you clothed me. He understood then that Christ had indeed come to him that day in the person of Stephen, and that he had made him welcome, and his heart was filled with a peace he had never before experienced.

Cydni: Let us remember this holiday season.

If we do it unto the least of these, my brethren, we do it unto Him. President Nelson said, Today we need His light, the light of Jesus Christ, [00:05:00] more than ever. We need men and women who reflect his light by being peacemakers, willing to reason with others rather to contend with them.

He shared three invitations with us. This Christmas season, will you let your light shine 

Sher: Amid all the hustle and bustle of gifts and gatherings, will you let your life reflect the light and love of Jesus Christ?

Cydni: And finally, with a dawning of each day, could you identify someone who needs your light? As we follow Jesus Christ, we can make the world a better place.

This is our prayer from Cydni and Sher