I have been blessed. During my morning prayer today i got a parable that really spoke to my heart.

I lit a candle and started praying, but tha candle had a too short wick and the flame was small. At that moment i felt that my flame, my connection to God was small as well and beacuse of that my prayer became: ”Lord blow your spirit at my glow to make it into a fire”

By instinct (?) i took the candle and poured off some wax, so that the flame should be bigger, and as i did that, i also got som molten wax on my finger. It hurt a bit ofcourse, but the flame got bigger and shone brighter.

With this God showed me that in order for my glow, my small flame, to grow, i need to get rid of whats in the way, i simply need to pour off my ”extra wax”. I need to let go of the things that suffocate and get in the was when God wants to blow his spirit onto my glow, o waken the fire. I need to leave space for the fire, the small flame, to get bigger.

In much the same way as it hurt me to pour off the wax from the candle, it can hurt to get rid of my self-will, my fears, my harm and my behaviour, that is the things that suffocate and get in the way, but i have to do it in order to keep the flame alive and the fire burning.

As i sat in the darkness with the candle, the resutl was that the flame got bigger and that i ould see better. Exactly in the same way as when i remove whats in the way for Gid. The light enters and i can see everything in bright light instead of in the twilight of myself.

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