Let The Light In

The other day I was doing a recorded meditation session and the instructor said that if you have trouble with sleepiness, imagine a window with bright sunlight streaming in as a way to counteract that sleepiness. I liked that idea and I think it has a lot of applications beyond just combating sleepiness. If we are ever feeling ungrateful, disrespectful, deceitful, hateful, lustful, covetous, murderous, fearful, weak, shameful, unlovable, we can imagine bright, powerful light from Heaven flooding into our mind and illuminating our souls with warmth and love and truth. Imagine might even be the wrong word. God is constantly showering us with His light and His love and we may often feel that because of our thoughts or our words or our deeds that we do not deserve or have somehow been cut off from that light and that love, but if we choose to open ourselves up to Heaven’s light, regardless of how dark our current circumstances, then the light will come in. The light found Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail, it found Daniel in the Lion’s den, it found the brothers Nephi and Lehi surrounded by darkness and by angry men who wanted to murder them. When Christ walked the earth, he poured his light into the eyes of the blind, the ears of the deaf, the legs of the lame. He chased out devils, brought back the dead and calmed the storms. When we are struggling, with sin or weakness or tragedy or grief, we can open our hearts and our minds and our souls to the life-saving light of our redeemer. He will chase away our fears and our doubts and our temptations. He will lift us above our despair. He will take upon Himself our burden, that we may be light.