Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Penny Candle – and if
You Don’t Have a Penny, Love Will Do
The key to the lighting of a church candle is that, in its tiny light, all the mystery of life is drawn up into an eternity excluding only sorrow and loss.
-Tod Mixson
It’s not just that a candle struggles against darkness
But that we do too, trying to sort the chaos
With weary eyes and unsure, trembling hands -
But it is something that we’ve lit the candle
It’s not just that a candle flickers in the darkness
But that we shape against shadows all our hopes
Bundling them into a pilgrim’s haversack
For whatever remains of our journey to Light
For in the end we give the candle away
Offering it to a passing Whisper in the night
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