Sharing the Savior’s Story

Holes in the Darkness

The great author, Robert Louis Stevenson, was a frail little boy. Because of his many sicknesses, he had long hours to think and philosophize. One night, sitting in the window of his parents' home, he watched in the dusk as a lamplighter went down the street. He observed the man turn on the gas, open the glass window of the light, and with a flame at the end of a long pole, ignite the street lantern. Turning to his mother, he commented, “Look Mum, a man is coming down the street making holes in the darkness.”

Excerpt from The Lutheran Hour broadcast of: December 14, 2003