Sewing With Fire

I faced a dilemma last night, what to do when our Christ Candle in our Advent Wreath burned down?  Life is filled with lessons that come with meaningful decisions always there waiting for us to thoughtfully learn and make them.  It seemed important to make the right decision, we had finished our evening devotional and it was my responsibility to extinguish the Christ Candle but doing so seemed thoroughly sacrilegious.  I was awakened to God’s thoughts as He reminded me that the fire of the candle was a metaphor for the light, love, and warmth of His grace in sending His Son for us.  That fire, given to us by faith, is there for us to share and sow into our dark, cold and hurting world where He places us.  This morning I considered the decision again and this time was awakened to the idea of sowing being sewing, creating newness by sewing Christ’s love fire into the world that we will daily be in.  Goes along well with a lesson we often remind our family of, some people build the world and other people live in it which is the same as saying some people sew for the world and others wear what is sewn.  I hope for my family and you to be often sewing with God's Son’s fire this New Year.   

The fire sewed into us last night.