There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist)

We may not be the light that casts vision or shines with enlightenment and encouragement. But we can be reflectors of that kind of light. If we’re willing to let someone else get the credit for being the light, we can be satisfied just to reflect it.

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6)