Light

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Tehilim (Psalms)- Chapter 27

1. Of David. God is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? God is the stronghold of my life; from whom shall I be frightened?

2. When evildoers draw near to me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies against me -- they stumbled and fell.

3. If a camp encamps against me, my heart shall not fear; if a war should rise up against me, in this I trust.

4. One thing I ask of God, that I seek: that I may dwell in the house of God all the days of my life, to see the pleasantness of God and to visit His Temple every morning.

5. That He will hide me in His tabernacle on the day of calamity; He will conceal me in the secrecy of His tent; He will lift me up on a rock.

6. And now, my head will be raised over my enemies around me, and I will sacrifice in His tent sacrifices with joyous song; I will sing and chant praise to God.

7. Hearken, O God, to my voice which I call out, and be gracious to me and answer me.

8. On Your behalf, my heart says, "Seek My presence." Your presence, O God, I will seek.

9. Do not hide Your presence from me; do not turn your servant away with anger. You were my help; do not forsake me and do not abandon me, O God of my salvation.

10. For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but God gathers me in.

11. Instruct me, O God, in your way, and lead me in the straight path because of those who lie in wait for me.

12. Do not deliver me to the desires of my adversaries, for false witnesses and speakers of evil have risen against me.

13. Had I not believed in seeing God's goodness in the land of the living!

14. Hope for God, be strong and He will give your heart courage, and hope for God.

His light reveals all that we possess, but have somehow missed in the dimmed corridors of everyday life:

- The light reveals our flaws.

- It reveals our potential to transcend those flaws.

- It reveals that our negativity runs no deeper than a bad dream from which we can awake.

- It reveals that our dream of perfection is a vision we are empowered to attain.

- It reveals that we are not as far from godliness as we thought we were.

- It reveals that we are not a separate entity from God, but an extension of God’s essence.

- It reveals our ability to see this Divine quality in everyone else, as well.

- It reveals our capacity to rise above the pain of the transient and ephemeral.

- It reveals our capacity to rejoice in the real and eternal.