Thought for the Week: An encounter

Connie Hazell reflects on an encounter

by Connie Hazell 22nd May 2015

‘Are you open to new light from whatever source it may come?’

Advices & queries 7

The Friend had arrived on a recent Thursday morning, and I had read the letters page over breakfast. A phrase in one of the letters stayed with me: it was ‘The Light of Christ is in us all’. What a claim! I pondered this during the morning. Is this our conscience or our better selves? Is this compassion, kindness, consideration? Is this the same as ‘seeing that of God in everyone?’ or more of a personal challenge to let the Light of Christ illumine our way, sometimes along unfamiliar paths. Is it a challenge to love the unlovable and move out of our comfort zone, to use a popular phrase?