What is lighting your life?
By J.E. Nickerson For the last few weeks I have been learning some basic home owners skills, while helping my family paint and clean several rooms in our house. One of the upgrades I participated in, was the installation of lights in several rooms of our house. Light bulbs that only gave 60watts of dim yellow light, were replaced with more modern bulbs that gave off a very bright white light. Suddenly, rooms that appeared to be fairly clean in the dim yellow light, looked in dire need of a good cleaning in the harsh and almost overbearing light of the new bulbs. After seeing how bright the room was with the new light bulbs, my mother exclaimed in disbelief, “I have so much to clean! Oh my God!” I jokingly told my family to quickly turn out the lights, so I didn’t see how much dirt was really in the room. The simple changing of light bulbs gives us a good life lesson about the source of light we choose to guide us in life and the impact it can have on the cleannes...
