'We' are like the 'flame'. We appear to have form and substance, but on closer inspection, are mostly just hot air :)

Just as the flame appears solid with a clearly defined existence, so we appear.

A flame casts no shadow

Just a flame is luminous, radiating light, dispelling 'shadow'

So we are able when we radiate compassion, love, truth.

People will say, 'but the only reason you can see a shadow at all is that there is a greater light source illuminating the room that the match/flame is in'

Yes, of course

and so too is the illumination provided by a candle, a spotlight, the sun, etc

It is not the light itself

It is the potential for luminosity

and so we can either be like a candle, a spotlight, the sun, etc, according to our current ability to emit 'light'

It's okay to be a candle :)

We do not have to understand it all or know everything.

we do not have to be 'perfect', in fact we can never be.

what we can do is to be a point of light, from which the 'true light' radiates, luminosity itself.

Itself devoid of form or substance.

1 Corinthians 13:12 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

To this path, through God's infinite wisdom, love and mercy, we are called For each of us, imperfect as we are, to radiate God's light You may not be a spotlight, or the sun but you can be a candle. that is enough, more than enough You are enough, you are capable God bless you all :)