“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person,” said Albert Schweitzer. “Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
Read those two sentences again and pause to think:
How many times has your light dimmed and faltered, only to be rekindled by a spark from another person?
In what ways did God arrange events to bring that person into your life?
Maybe he or she was a neighbor, or a grocery clerk, a fireman, a four-year-old, a librarian, a conference speaker, your best friend, a new friend, or even a stranger you never saw again.
Back then, you might not have recognized God’s efforts to bring that person into your life, but it’s not too late!
Be deliberate. Make time to remember.
Ponder what happened. Snap the puzzle pieces together. Connect the dots and notice the ways God hovered close, using that person to lighten your burden, to rekindle your light.
Uncover it, even if it takes weeks or months.
Here’s a suggestion:
Make yourself a working document, a three-column list, one column for your dark events, a second column for the people who shared their light, and a third column to make notes about specifics that come to mind.
Some, if not all, of those incidents are stories to write in your memoir.
When you write, dig deep. And deeper. Refuse to skim over the shallow surface of life.
- What did you learn about yourself through both the dimming of your light and the rekindling of it?
- What new and better person did you become?
- As a result, how did your life change?
- What did you learn about God?
- How did the experience strengthen your faith?
When you write about those experiences, you are saying, like David in Psalm 18:28, “My God turns my darkness into light.”
2 Peter 2:9 speaks to those chosen by God, set apart, belonging to God, for a purpose: “that you might declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
Just think!
Through your memoir you can pass on to others
the light someone gave to you!
It can reach into the lives and hearts and minds
of those whose lights have dimmed and faltered.
Your memoir can rekindle a spark
that can grow into bright flames of light.
Wow! Just Wow!
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