"Shine on Us!"
“He will cause the bright
dawn of salvation to rise on us and to shine from heaven on all those who live
in the dark shadow of death, to guide our steps into the path of peace.” Luke
1:78b-79
I am sure many of us have
had the same disconcerting moment. Something wakes us out of a deep sleep in
the middle of the night. We may have been in the midst of a vivid dream full of
images and people that seemed as real as the waking world. Those few moments
between reverie and reality can be extremely disorienting. Perhaps it was
bright daylight in your dream and you cannot figure out why it is now so dark.
Or you were halfway through a conversation with an old friend, awaking to
wonder how the conversation ended.
