I nearly walked right past this old streetlamp on a recent trip up to Leura in the Blue Mountains. The lid was gone and its old lightbulb was sitting (disconnected but still intact) atop a literal nest of twigs and greens.
“Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.”
― Chesterton, G. K.
The whole thing was about to disappear into the bushes. Any second now.
It might be gone a very long time.
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“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness. Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”
Luke 11:33-36
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