Katie Walker at the Lighthouse

Many will know the famous story of Mrs. Katie Walker and the Robbins Reef Lighthouse in New York Harbor. Her husband was the keeper of the lighthouse, and was stricken with serious illness, which necessitated his removal to the hospital on Staten Island. Mrs.

Walker remained on Robbins Reef to do his work. One dark day the message came that he had entered into the Land where the Lamb is the Light thereof. “We buried him,” said Mrs. Walker, “in the cemetery on the hill over there.

Every morning I stand at this porthole and look in the direction of his grave. Sometimes the hills are green, sometimes they are brown, sometimes they are white with snow. But they always have a message for me.

Something I heard my husband say more often than anything else. Just three words— ‘Mind the light!’” “The fire shall ever be burning on the altar; it shall never go out.”