WORTH READING 22 Sep 2005

Little Candle

Once upon a time a little candle stood in a room filled with other
candles,
most of them much larger and much more beautiful than she was. Some were
ornate and some were rather simple, like herself. Some were white, some
were
blue, some were pink, some were green. She had no idea why she was
there,
and the other candles made her feel rather small and insignificant.

When the sun went down and the room began to get dark, she noticed a
large
man walking toward her with a ball of fire on a stick. She suddenly
realized
that the man was going to set her on fire. No, no!! she cried,
Aaaaagghhh!
Don't burn me, please! But she knew that she could not be heard and
prepared
for the pain that would surely follow.

To her surprise, the room filled with light. She wondered where it came
from
since the man had extinguished his fire stick. To her delight, she
realized
that the light came from herself.

Then the man struck another fire stick and, one by one, lit the other
candles in the room. Each one gave out the same light that she did.

During the next few hours, she noticed that, slowly, her wax began to
flow.
She became aware that she would soon die. With this realization came a
sense
of why she had been created. Perhaps my purpose on earth is to give out
light until I die, she mused. And that's exactly what she did.

Lord created you and I to produce light in a dark world. Like that
little
candle, we all can produce the same amount of light, no matter how small
we
are or what color we might be. But we can't produce light until we
receive
it from an outside source. That source is Lord, the light of the world.

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