Lights

Hello my wonderful family & friends!!! 

This week has been... in a word... otimo! maravilhosa! serio, não tenho as palavras para explicar e expressar como o Senhor me abençoar. 

:) 

Its been a wonderful & hard week all over again & I couldnt be happier. Ive actually been doing a lot of thinking and pondering about lights. 

Last Pday me & Sis C went into Centro to buy a few things (actually she bought a few things while I stood around looking at stuff haha yall know how much Im NOT a shopper in the slightest) but in the end we bought a christmas tree because I really needed it. I bought the smallest one the store had, along with a set of christmas lights and plastic bells. 

Every night for the past week after nightly planning is over, and Sis C takes a shower, I sit in our little study room and plug in our christmas tree and listen to Mannheim Steamroller's Stille Nacht while reading Luke 1 and D&C. 

As I sat there and watch the lights flicker across the pictures of the grandkids at christmas & the picture of all of you at the family history center Ive never felt so at peace. 

Theres a scripture in Doctrine & Covenants thats really had an effect on me. D&C 67:9

and that which is righteous cometh down from above, from the Father of^blights.

Wow.... did yall catch that? the Father of lights. I stopped midsentence as I read this. I felt the gentle, warmth of the Spirit wash over me as the violins playing silent night played, & our little christmas tree lit our room with a romantic light. 

The connection between our Father in Heaven & our Savior & lights is an analogy that never gets old for me. 

Son of God loves pure light

Radiant beams from thy holy face

With the dawn of redeeming grace

That which is of God is ^alight; and he that ^breceiveth ^clight, and^dcontinueth in God, receiveth more ^elight; and that light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day.

 25 And again, verily I say unto you, and I say it that you may know the ^atruth, that you may chase darkness from among you;

Remember the declaration our savior made? I am the light of the world. 

So family, friends, as you listen to Stille Nacht, and watch the lights of your Christmas trees, remember our Redeemer. Remember our Father of Lights. And know that Im doing the same thing, not so far away from you. 

I love you all so very much. Merry Christmas.

xo

Sister VerHoef