Whispers of His Power – JANUARY 10

The grace for light.

There is a lovely old Irish custom called “The grace for light’.  I read of it in an Irish poem, which tells of a very poor family where that custom was kept.  They had no good lamp or lantern, only a tiny rush-light, but when the mother lit it she said:  ‘God be thanked.  Now we have a light.’  And the father replied:  ‘May the Lamb of God lead us all to the Light of Heaven.’  Then the children were quiet for a moment, and thought of Him ‘who called us to come and be forgiven’.

How good it would be to use the turning on of the electric light as a reminder to say Thank you for the blessed gift of light.  We cannot have too many of such reminders, for we are by nature forgetful and far too inclined to take all our good things for granted.

But don’t let a custom grow into anything formal.  Just a Thank you, a quick look of love, is enough.

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These words are from ’Whispers of His Power’ a collection of writings that Amy Carmichael wrote for her ‘children’ and others associated with the Dohnavur Fellowship and are Copyright © The Dohnavur Fellowship 1982

Unless otherwise stated, biblical quotations are from the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

The following abbreviations are used to refer to other versions and sources:

BCP:               Book of Common Prayer, the Great Bible of Coverdale

Conybeare:       W. J. Conybeare, The Epistles of Paul (a translation)

Delitzsch:        F. Delitzsch, Notes on Job and the Psalms

Kay:                W. Kay, The Psalms (a translation)

LXX:              The Septuagint

Moffatt:           J. Moffatt, The New Testament: a new translation

Rotherham:      J. B. Rotherham, The Emphasized Bible Revised Version

RV:                 Revised Version

Way:              A. Way, The Letters of St Paul (a translation)

Westcott:        F. Westcott, Notes on the Gospel of St John

Weymouth:      R. F. Weymouth, The New Testament in Modern Speech

Young:            R. Young, A Literal Translation of the Bible

Verses of poetry without quotation marks were written by Amy Carmichael.