Friends: What if we each declared that we were choosing Patronuses
over Dementors?
In the Harry Potter series, a Patronus is a light guardian
that acts as a shield between a
person and a Dementor. A Dementor is a dark creature who sucks out
happiness and generates feelings
of depression and despair in any person close to it.
Yes. These
characters are fictional, but aren’t they found in real life, too?
Aren’t there
forces that suck out happiness and create feelings of depression and despair?
And aren’t there other forces that protect against that?
Take Jesus, for
example. Jesus declares himself the light of the world—the dispelling force
against darkness…
Sometimes late
at night, I lie in bed and imagine myself walking through the hallways of my
school. Jesus is walking beside me, a Patronus in and of himself, yet he is
also casting a Patronus, or maybe it’s me casting the Patronus, in the form of
a powerful, yet graceful, horse. The Patronus moves up and down the hallways,
in and out of classrooms, and pushes out Dementors. Light invades darkness and
leaves its essence behind. Then we walk to my classroom where Jesus sets up
camp for the night. He illegally builds a fire in the middle of my room, and
spends the night there to keep the room safe and warm until I am able to
return.
A Patronus. Not
a dementor…
God: I’m mixing
real life with fantasy here. But help us to choose Patronuses over
Dementors…because I think if we did, then this world would be a much, much
better place. Amen.
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