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Alright I’m super excited for the opportunity to speak today,

We were asked to speak about Christmas and how Christ is the Light of the world.

When I think of the Light of Christ I think of Hope. Because of the Savior and all He’s done for us, we can have light and hope in our lives. 

In a devotional by Elder John H. Groberg of the Seventy titled There Is Always Hope he explains it perfectly, 

he says, 

“I think that in some instances we may be able to substitute the word hope for light and get some understanding in the scriptures, we talk about Christ as being the light of the world—he is the hope of the world”

Hope, in a word, is the Savior. Hope is a part of the deity in us that attaches us to the Savior. Don’t let that thread be cut. No matter how thin it might be, there is always hope.”

Just a heads up you’re going to be hearing a lot from Uchtdorf today because both me and Tay ended up pulling from his talks. I have two separate talks from him that I’ll be using but they were too good not to share cuz when it comes to Hope, Uchtdorf says it best. 

In his talk titled The Infinite Power of Hope from the October 2008 conference he says, 

“The adversary uses despair to bind hearts and minds in suffocating darkness. Despair drains from us all that is vibrant and joyful and leaves behind the empty remnants of what life was meant to be. 

Despair kills ambition, advances sickness, pollutes the soul, and deadens the heart. Despair can seem like a staircase that leads only and forever downward.” 

“Hope, on the other hand, is like the beam of sunlight rising up and above the horizon of our present circumstances.