One
late afternoon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, wanting to be alone, I entered a
strange cathedral & sat down amid the silence & semi-darkness. It was a
gloomy place at that hour. The stained glass windows were especially forbidding.
Presently a caretaker approached me, and thinking he wished me to leave so
that he could lock up, I started to go. "Oh no," he whispered, "don't go until
the lights come on!" So I waited. The room became darker, the shadows deepened,
the windows were ugly & repelling & I wanted so much to leave. Then
suddenly the street lights came on in full & the whole scene was
changed!
What a
transformation! I thought I had never seen such exquisite coloring, such
Heavenly suggestiveness as the windows gave forth in their wonderful coloring!
Everything was enhanced with unearthly beauty that fed my soul, and I wanted
to capture and keep it forever!
Then I
thought of the darkness which had shrouded many times my spirit, and how
inexplicably it can vanish with the joy of the Lord coming in & His
light flooding the soul. "The Lord will lighten my darkness!" (2nd Samuel 22:29) I had learned a
secret from that old caretaker, yes I had!--Don't go until the lights come
on!
By Virginia Brand Berg
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