glow on...

i found the coolest little craft on pinterest several weeks ago, very simple, but who knew there would be SO many illustrations involved in this activity... aHEM, you take a glass jar, any size any shape, purchase some glow paint at your nearest craft store, take the glow paint and dot it on the inside of the glass jar, hold it up to the light then turn OFF the lights? and you have an amazing little magic firefly jar that glows just about long enough to put you to sleep... now that you understand the simplicity of this craft, you'll wonder, welllll why didn't she MAKE it? because i didn't... i had all the stuff prepared in a nice plastic bag sitting on my dining room table (because of course we don't use that to actually serve food... how ridiculous would THAT be...)..;)... i let the bag sit on the table until one night i was turning off all the lights as we were getting ready for bed and noticed that something was glowing on my table...i had completely forgotten about my previous craft attack and had simply left all the items in the bag and the glow paint had absorbed the light and was glowing through the plastic bag... i turned the lights back on and regardless of the hour decided it wouldn't take long to create a glowing masterpiece... so i got busy and created some dots inside a jar and then (just like a 5 year old) promptly ran into our bedroom and told my husband timmy to "turn off the lights, turn off the lights"!!!, i proudly displayed my handiwork and he was actually impressed by the "coolness" factor of this little glow jar... we then experimented a bit and he held the jar up close to his bedside light, we darkened the room one more time and the jar glowed even brighter! it was such a fun surprise, but even more so was how GOD surprised us with His illustration.

WE are like glow paint, on our own, without any light (God) we can't realize our potential and actually be who we were created to be, we can't glow on our own... but to carry this a bit further, when we are close to that Light, our glow, our relationship with God gets stronger and glows brighter... but just like glow paint, if we don't have regular access to the Light, we cannot glow and we simply fade out, on the plus side? you always have the potential to glow, just revisit the Light, it's always there...

1 John 1:7 says "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

God wants us to enjoy and absorb His love and His light, He has provided a very real way for us to be close to Him through his Son...the opportunity is there, hopefully we won't be like my jar of glow paint and just sit there on the unused dining room table, hopefully we'll realize that we can be turned into something amazing if we just allow Him to use us... so glow on, my friends, glow on...


OH and i needed to show you a little sample of these jars... these are the ones from pinterest 'cuz i was too lazy to take pictures of mine:) enjoy...