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I was in a garden shop the other day and I came across these really cute little lights.

I was looking at the different styles I had and I thought these are so cute and I have the perfect place to put these lights.

There's a place at our side back door. When you walk out you begin to walk down this little path and you can't see anything it's so dark.

I don't have any electricity out there. So I thought these solar lights will be perfect to place along that path so that we can see at night.

I'm always stumbling trying to stay on the little path. So I took the lights and put them in the ground. It was a beautiful sunny day.

I thought these lights are going to power up. It's going to be amazing. I can't wait to take a walk tonight. See how my lights are working.

So I didn't say anything to Joel about it. But I said hey let's go take a walk. So we went outside and started to go down that little path.

I wanted to see if he noticed my new lights. So as we started walking down the path I realized my lights weren't working.

I didn't say anything to Joel because I didn't want him to know that I had put lights there and my plan had failed.

So I just kept walking down the path but in my mind I was so discouraged. I thought those lights were just going to work beautifully.

They're solar lights. I thought you know what tomorrow I'm taking those lights up and I'm marching them straight back to the store and I'm going to tell them they're cute but they don't work.

They're no good to me if they don't work. So the next morning I got up and I took the lights out and I started looking at how it was.

I began to kind of examine it and I noticed under the bottom in the corner was this little bitty tab.

I saw I've seen this before. You're supposed to pull the tab so that what is inside the light can be illuminated by the sun. That's what gives it the power.

So I thought oh wow okay so I went and I pulled all the tabs put them back down thought tonight is the night.

God Joel wanted him to come take a walk with me so he would notice my lights and sure enough they were shining brightly.

They illuminated my path. Now Joel wasn't as impressed with my lights as I was but they were working perfectly once I figured out to pull the tab so that they could be powered by the sun.

You see we're very much like those solar lights. We have to pull our tab. That means remove anything in our life that would block us from allowing the sun, the SON to shine on us.

You see we have something on the inside of us and it is the seed of God and when we allow his presence to shine on us when we do all we can do to bask in his presence, get more of him, we are also illuminated.

See we weren't meant to stumble around in the darkness. We weren't meant to not know the way to go. God says that we were meant to shine like stars in the universe but we've got to allow the SON to shine in our life.

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