Lumen

About a year ago I came across a quote that says “surgery is never done in the dark”. As I thought about it I realized how often I try to fix myself; alone, perhaps passing myself the scalpel and bandaging wounds that don’t need bandaging, however really need to be cleaned out an examined by others. I am blown away at my tendency to hide.

I’ve been acknowledging the ever growing temptation to stuff and hold in the pain in my life, temptation I’m dealing with, or things that I’m afraid to bring to friends, because after all they need me to have my stuff together right? I’m seeing the gap between my theology and reality when it comes to the words of Jesus’ brother in James 5:16 that say “therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed”. I believe this is true in my head, but do I live this?

I’m amazed at how often I reduce the power of light, the power of bringing the light of Christ into the dark corners of my soul, into the dark corners of my life.

A lumen is defined as a unit of measure of the quantity of light. One lumen is the amount of light that falls on an area of one square foot. This word Lumen has been capturing me a bit and is driving me to examine the luminosity in my life, the luminosity in my soul.

How much light am I allowing into the dark corners of my soul, into the dark corners of my life?

How about you?

Maybe you don’t struggle with this, maybe its just me.

Does your Community really know you?

Do you have a couple friends that ask you really hard questions?

I’m praying that as a Community we continue to carve out time to sit with one another and share the difficult things, and confess our sins to one another. I pray that we would live out James words, and find that its actually true that when we crack open the door to the dark rooms in our soul the healing light of Christ’s love pours in through his redemptive community providing the healing he so desires for our souls.

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