'The Lighthouse'

Two weeks ago, I went up to the National Park Cabrillo in San Diego. It was my first time going up to a light house (yes this is it on the left). I'm not sure why the title "The Lighthouse" came up when I was deciding on what this blogspot would be called (I 'jokingly' went over many corny-er titles with cadengs), but I'm sure my trip here had something to do with it.

I learned several things. A lighthouse produces its source of light through a lamp, which was originally lit by open fires and then candles, and then concentrates its light outwardly through its optical lens, which is rotated sometimes as frequent as every two hours by wounding a weighted clockwork assembly by a lighthouse keeper (back in the old days at least -- now everything is powered electronically or mechanically).

It's purpose is to "guide mariners along the coast or into a port, or warn them of submerged dangers."

In short, I feel that I am to be like a lighthouse that is lit by a constant, consistent burning of intimacy that comes only from spending time with God, with an optical lens that concentrates that burning light wherever the 'lighthouse keeper' rotates it.

***Something significant to note about a lighthouse is that it never leads mariners to itself, but it leads and flashes light toward where the mariners need to go or avoid by the leading of the 'lighthouse keeper'. May this one do just that!