Salt Leaven and Light

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In a favorite children’s book, Cowardly Clyde was a cowardly horse who was terrified to enter the dark woods. Ultimately, he gained confidence and courage and was able to enter the woods and pull out the dreadful monster that loomed there—a monster that dissipated into nothingness when exposed to the light.

We, too, often have “monsters” hiding in the dark past of our lives–shame, fear, uncertainty, sin, blame. The thought of entering those dark places to deal with those “monsters” is terrifying.

However, when the day finally comes that we decide to expose our “monsters” to the light, we get our first taste of real freedom.

Reading the book, Bonds That Make Us Free, opened my eyes to the self-deception that was taking place in my life, a self-deception that is increasingly pervasive in our society. Are we, as adults, often unknowingly, hiding in the dark? I believe we are.

Walking in the light is walking exposed. It is walking in the truth of our failings.

It’s not being perfect.

It’s not being sparkly and sunshiny.

To walk in the light is to fix our eyes on Jesus [and on each other]— exposed and forgiven.

Exposed.

Forgiven.

Courageous.

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Cowardly Clyde teaches children important truths about darkness and light.

Bonds That Make Us Free teaches adults how to weed out the darkness and self-deception in their lives.