Object: A flashlight.

Lesson: Even one light can make a big difference in the darkness.

Have you ever been someplace that is dark? I mean really dark. So dark you can't see your hand in front of your face? So dark someone could be standing five inches in front of you and you would never know? So dark you feel totally and completely alone?

When I was in college, I worked as a summer missionary at a camp in the mountains. We did all sorts of neat things. We went canoeing, hiking, and camping, but the neatest thing we did was caving. We wore hard hats to protect our heads and we wore long pants and long-sleeve shirts because it's cold inside a cave even when it's summertime on the outside. Most important of all, we each carried a flashlight. (Turn on flashlight and shine the light on the f…