Enough light to find your way by

Consider this new word: Ratiljóstˆ (an Icelandic term that I’ve never heard before).

It means having “enough light to find your way by.” Similar to other words from Northern Europe that have served a good purpose among us in recent years in terms of expanding our sense of how to live. Like “hygge,” the Danish word for coziness. Or “lagom,” the Swedish word for “not too much, not too little; just right.” Or “sisu,” Finnish for grit in the face of great adversity.

Ratiljóst, enough light to find your way by.


This word, or to be more honest, this definition, has been rolling around in my mind ever since I heard it. Enough light to find your way by. Isn’t that the longing of each day? Particularly in these days of stress and fear and grief, these days of political angst, of economic angst, of division. Enough light to find your way by. Maybe it’s a word you’d like to consider as well. Ratiljóst
Let’s be light for each other, shall we? I need your light, and maybe you need mine too. 
 
Grace and peace,

Anita Sorenson
Pastor for Spiritual Formation