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Fire is dramatic, as is its effect.
Make a picture of a flame or something changed by fire or flame.

See how great a flame aspires,
Kindled by a spark of grace!
Jesu`s love the nations fires,
Sets the kingdoms on a blaze.
To bring fire on earth he came,
Kindled in some hearts it is:
O that all might catch the flame,
All partake the glorious bliss!

Charles Wesley

Instead of using, what to me was the obvious Bible passage – of the day of Pentecost when the tongues of fire came on the disciples, when I read the assignment for today, and having taken this photo of a flame on my gas fire, the words of the verse of the above hymn came to my mind.

In the way that the pilot-light lit the whole of the gas fire, giving warmth and light, it set me thinking – without that first pilot light nothing would have happened to the coal.  If we are the pilot-lights lit by God that sets us a challenge to spread that flame of his love.

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