New Christmas Lights

On my front deck I have a couple of solar butterflies and a solar lily. It is so cool that all they do is sit in the flower pots and soak up the sunshine and then at night they glow and change colors all by themselves. So the other day I was thinking, somebody should make solar Christmas lights. They keep advertising these LED lights to save energy but just think how much energy could be saved by solar lights. So wouldn't you know, the very next day almost, I found them at Mills Fleet Farm. There they were, solar LED Christmas lights. Now I hate stringing extension cords to the front deck for the lights. I hate going out in the bitter cold each night to plug them in and then to unplug them at bedtime. I've tried putting a timer on the cord so I don't have to go out, but then it gets icy and the timer freezes and won't turn and once again I'm outside in the cold trying to thaw and reset the timer. So this is the perfect solution for me. NO cords. NO timers. The little solar panel sits in the flower pot on the deck with the dead geraniums and soaks up the sunshine all day and as soon as it gets dark my Christmas lights come on automatically. Then after about 6 hours (which is close to bedtime) the lights just go off by themselves. YEAH!!! I love them!

Then I got to thinking about the deeper meaning of all this. Reminds me of the Christian life. Some people have to be plugged into programs at all times to look or act Christian. Some have timers because they only look Christian on Sundays and religious holidays. But I want to be a solar light. I want to soak up all the love and light of the Son all the time so that I will reflect His light to the dark world for all to see.