Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life

in the time it takes to get to work. I'm Tanya Wilmuth. I just wonder if someone follows you

around for a week, if they were to sit in on your conversations and read your text and listen to

how you talk about people when they aren't there, what would they say? What would they say about you? What would they say about me? Would they say

you brought something different into the room? One of the things that I like to pray for with my

family is that we, they, all of us will be light wherever we go. If you think about all the places

and connections and conversations, texts, and multiply by a family

of six, that has up to lots of opportunities to be something different than what the world expects.

There are so many small ordinary moments in a week where you can reflect something better, or you can just go along with what's normal.

Now, I don't think we always get this right.

But when we ask God to help us, I think he honors that because he is light. And he unites

himself with us so that we can be his light in all the places he has us. I think he can even work

through us to be light. Thank goodness, when we mess up, when we

replay a conversation later and wish we'd set something differently, or when we realized we

missed an opportunity entirely.

Yesterday was Easter morning.

And the light was so bright on our way to church that we were working hard to see the road

and the cars ahead of us.

It was that kind of bright light

that comes in just the right angle when you keep adjusting, like pulling the visor down,

leaning forward a little, squinting, because everything is just flooded with light.

And after Friday's Good Friday service, where we leave the sanctuary in dimmed light

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