“Let there be light.” (Genesis 1:3) A mandate for the world. It was the first thing spoken by God of which we have record. It is the inciting incident in our world’s origin story. Without it, the creation and life could not have continued.
There is a model in this for us. Without light, we cannot create. We cannot exist. We cannot live on borrowed light. (See the parable of the ten virgins.)
I’m working on my family vision today,
We are beings of light. (See Doctrine and Covenants 93:2, John 1:9) We are endowed with this power upon birth.
Satan and his minions never experience the light of Christ. They don’t know what it is, they don’t experience it, they cannot understand it.
We of this world are different than them because of our first choice, we are blessed with the light of Christ. We have choosen to be as the moon, the stars, and the sun.
But what of borrowed light? There is a glory in the light of the moon, as there is a glory in the light of the stars, though these lights be different in intensity than that of the sun.
This morning I am also in serious consideration of the empowering nature of gratitude and how it enables us to embrace light and work with it.
Here is a different thought, a mystery that to me has been revealed:
With our hands, we receive light. With our hands, we give light. Gratitude is the means by which light is both received and transmitted. Only hands, tamed or disciplined through obedience, are prepared to work with light.
May we have that testimony, that desire in our hearts, to teach others, to explain what we believe, and to live lives of righteousness, to live the good life, to be an example to mankind, and to be able to spread this work not only by what we say but by the way we act, the way we live, the way we represent the Church, and the type of example we are to mankind. (David B. Haight, https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2000/04/faith-devotion-and-gratitude?lang=eng)