A Festival of Light

We are so often consumed by news of the horrors of war, that we despair of the darkness and we lose perspective!
Kris commenced Sunday's address -"A festival of Light" at Shady Grove by telling a story from the Indian Upanishads. Our Unitarian Festival of Light is inspired today by the Diwali - the Hindu Festival of Lights. Light has long been a metaphor for that deeper part of ourselves - call it the soul...the spirit, some divine spark within ourselves - a light - "the lamp within" -emanating goodness and divinity. Today is our Unitarian celebration of the light and goodness, expressed in the day-to-day acts of kindness and empathy. So let's not dwell on the darkness but join with us by celebrating this light within and surrounding us. Our Diwali!
Kris leaves us with a challenge: "How do you bear that light to the people around you?"
He concludes: "Let us be the light in the darkness!"