Lawrence Hall, HSG
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     A Penny Candle – and if You Don’t Have a Penny, Love will Do


          The key to the lighting of a church candle is that, in its tiny
          light, all the mystery of life is drawn up into an eternity
          excluding only sorrow and loss.

                                               -Tod Mixson


It’s not just that a candle struggles against darkness
But that we do too, trying to sort the chaos
With weary eyes and unsure, trembling hands -
But it is something that we’ve lit the candle

It’s not just that a candle flickers in the darkness
But that we shape against shadows all our hopes
Bundling them into a pilgrim’s haversack
For whatever remains of our journey to Light

For in the end we give the candle away
Offering it to a passing Whisper in the night