Tend the flame like a Diwali diya — don't leave it

A metaphor that is coming is that his presence for some time in the human condition, because my eye is strong, will seem like the light of a deer, the light of a lamb. So, your job is to just tend to that life and don't leave it. Like on the valley night, at least in the north, my family and other families do this. That throughout the night, they have to keep the deer burning. So, you get up many times in the night to make sure it's burning well. Some may even stay up the whole night and tend to it. So, his presence is burning like a flame in your heart. And then it will reveal more and more of himself to you. But initially remember that you are not to leave that light untended, come what? Because what happened when you leave it untended? When you move with the world, it seems to burn out. It seems to be seen to get disconnected. Then we have actually no guarantee, but his grace of course helps us. But we don't have a guarantee that it will ever find it again. So, actually the risk isn't that, the risk isn't leaving his presence. It's a bit. I can many of us say, no, I'll just be mindy for ten minutes and then I'll return to God's presence. Because God's presence is not guarantee. If you've been selfish for ten minutes, if you've been just me, me, me, me.