Lamp - A Story

For some weird reason last night this story popped into my brain as I tried to go to sleep. I cannot place it - I’m not sure if I read it somewhere, heard it, or imagined it up on the spot. It seems reminiscent of a child’s book - like Goodnight Moon - or something. So, I share it with you in all of its randomness and ask: Have you heard anything like this anywhere?

LAMP

In the cool of the night

in the darkness of the room

the cold lamp began to sense

First it was the glow of a nightlight,

then the darting of light reflected

in the eyes of the creatures

just outside the window

The lamp then saw the pin points

of lights in the city sky scape

and the blinking lights in the dark sky

Attention now fixed upward the

lamp saw the twinkling of the

stars across the dark expanse

And then, the grandness of the

light of the moon.

The lamp, now absorbed

in all of this fantastic light desired

greatly to shine the beam

of his own light

and join this harmony of light in the dark.

So the lamp looked to the nightlight and asked,

“please share your light”

But the nightlight could not

To the animals outside, the lamp now turned,

“please share your light with me”

“Our light is merely a reflection

of the light surrounding us

we cannot give that to you.”

Ah, perhaps the city sky scape

has light enough to share with the lamp,

but alas it was too small in the distance

Further away yet, the stars and

moon shone brightest

but their light came from the sun which

was even then too far away to benefit the lamp.

Almost in despair the lamp then

turned his attention to his own

cold, dark shape and saw it,

A cord and an outlet

“Ah, yes, my source of light of course!”

Plugging in his cord to the outlet

the lamp waited expectantly

No light.

sorrow,

grief,

despair

the lamp hung his head.

Then, quietly rising in the dark

a form came and

touched the lamp.

With that warm, gentle stroke

the lamp now beamed with

light!

Light that now joined all of the

night’s light at play

Glory, joy, celebration!

As Christians, we often look

all around us for sources of light

to share with us.

Trying to be a nightlight when we’re a lamp

Wishing we could be the light reflected in another’s eyes

Focusing our attention on the dazzling light of others far away

in grand, exciting places

Dazing off far in the distance forgetting the

closeness required to radiate the light of the Son.

It is only when we look

to our power source, the one made into us,

in the image of God

and

connect with Him that

we have potential for beaming light

And even then, we only shine

bright when God touches our lives

and reveals His light from within.