Just One Candle in 2006
January 2nd, 2006 by Ed Leonard. Popularity: 4%.During the Christmas season, I had the pleasure of listening to a children’s choir sing several Christmas songs. One of the songs they sang was new to me. I’d never heard it before and was especially moved by it. As I heard the song I couldn’t help but think of Lambda Chi Alpha and our Ritual.
The song is “Just One Candle” and the words are:
If I light just one candle and you light just one, too, and we pass the flame from wick to wick, from us to you and you.
With one candle, just one candle. Yes, one candle burning bright. With one candle, just one candle, we can fill the world with light.
And if we keep it going around the world, you’ll see the world is glowing with the light that came from you and me!
With one candle, just one candle. Yes, one candle burning bright. With one candle, just one candle, we can fill the world with light.
So, here’s my New Year’s resolution for Lambda Chi Alpha. With just one candle - the light of Lambda Chi Alpha passed from one brother to another, from one generation to the next - we can fill the world - whether it be the world of our college campuses or our hometown communities - with light!
January 6th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
Brother Leonard,
Thank you so much for sharing this insight, gained from an experience of the Christmastime. May I add, an experience that seemingly focused on what Christmas is REALLY about: the coming into this world of the one true Light, who is Christ.
And yours is a gr-r-reat New Year resolution! May we brothers in the Bond NEVER forget what this candle is that we were given thru the Ritual of our beloved Fraternity! And more, may we NEVER flag in our efforts to “keep the candle burning” (title of my favorite gospel song by the contemporary Christian women’s quartet Point of Grace) — and NEVER cease to seek to share this Light we follow, with those still lost in darkness!
In ZAX,
Glen Alan Graham
EG 540 (and High Phi)
University of Idaho 1976
January 6th, 2006 at 11:44 pm
We sang it 2 years ago (2004) at my school Christmas performance. It was a lovely song and we sang it today at school Mass because of the Epiphany. I never get tired of listening to it!