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You are the light

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden. Neither do you light a lamp and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand.Matthew 5:14–16

Elsewhere he says "I am the light of the world." Here: "you are." He does not seem to think these conflict. The light he carried is the same light he sees in the people listening: fishermen, nobody's idea of the enlightened. You are the light, not you will be. Thirty-five days of removing baskets, sugar and noise and grievance and fear, and something is visible now that was not before. Other people have probably noticed before you did. The purpose of the shining, note, is not your glory. The light is meant to be useful to everyone in the house.

Today's practice

Name one basket, one way you dim yourself to stay safe or unnoticed. In one small situation today, set it aside and let the light do what light does.

The fast

Daily fast, Daniel table, kept now without effort. Notice that it has become simply how you live.

Kept on this device only.