October Light

Light shone down throughout the Sacred Heart Monastery grounds this past Sunday--fall light, October light, everywhere.  It shone at the grotto:

And outside the Retreat Center:

And during the children's sermon in the large dining room (abbreviated 'LDR,' which is, to us Lutherans, very real 'Lutheran Disaster Relief'):

 It shone as Pastor Sandy Niiler prepared for the service:

And there was the light of wisdom in the words of the Gospel reading:

"[Jesus] said, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'"  This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second like it:  'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets" (Mt. 22: 37-40).

It was a Sunday of light, a day to remember that 'In him there is no darkness at all / The night and the day are both alike' (K. Thomerson, 'I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light,' WOV).