From Lauren Winner, p. 27:
The epistle reading today is from the fifth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians. Paul tells them that when Jesus returns, he will come like a thief in the night. “But you, beloved,” he writes,” are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.” I have been reading Paul almost every day for three years now, and it still stuns me that I am one of the beloved children of light.
People speak of you and it affects you. My counsel is to listen here and hear better speech. To have God address you, as his child (Proverbs and elsewhere)…. What more could you want?