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Candle Power

“There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle”

This inscription was found on a small new gravestone after a devastating air raid on Britain in WWII.

In moments of discouragement, defeat or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to.  Little things, usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind – in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved.

No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles.  When they are lighted, darkness goes away – and a touch of wonder remains.

Reader’s Digest, May 1975, page 134