Shine Your Light

We are all broken, that’s is how the light gets in.
-Ernest Hemingway 

Come Lord Jesus, shine your light into…

the dark places.
the hopeless spaces.
the frazzled days.
the unmet longings. 
the ceaseless striving.
the bitter resentment.
the unresolved conflict.
the weary waiting.
the wounds yet healed.
the painful loss.
the underlying grief.
the lonely aching.
the dying dreams. 
the restless fears.
the sleepless nights.
the unspoken broken.
the ordinary mundane.
the desires yet born.

Come, Lord Jesus. Open wide the doors of my heart. Let your glory-filled light flood in. Illuminate all the cracks and crevices. Redeem every nook and cranny of my life. May the most shattered pieces of my story be where your light shines most radiant and bright. 

I look back and I see, your love has never stopped coming for me. Finding me in the shadows of my shame. Gently tending to my deepest pain. I need not be afraid when uncertainty shrouds my vision, for your light breaks through, piercing the dark night. 

Though my little light seems a mere flicker, your light through me—rises and shines like the dawn of a new day. 

This little light of mine,
I’m going to let it shine!
Oh, this little light of mine,
I’m going to let it shine!

“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned.”
Isaiah‬ ‭9:2‬ ‭NIV‬‬