Free Your Flame

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

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I am not a Christian, but I’m full of Christian verse. One jam from my childhood is “This Little Light of Mine.” The name is half the lyrics. The other half: “I’m gonna let it shine (let it shine, let it shine).”

We don’t shine so much these days. Mostly, we submit. Mostly, we subject ourselves to trials of taking shit: not because we’re…