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A Light in Dark Places✦
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✦ The name is borrowed from the Phial of Galadriel — the little glass of starlight the Lady of Lothlórien presses into Frodo's hand as he sets out, in The Fellowship of the Ring: a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. It holds the light of a single distant star, caught in water, and it is enough to see by. So is a single verse. Lifted up in a dark hour, the smallest word of Scripture carries the light of the true Star — the Light that shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it (John 1:5). That is what we do here: hold one verse up to the light, and find Christ shining back.