“The bee is small among flying things, but her fruit hath the chiefest sweetness.” [Ecclesiasticus 11:3]
While other materials require Man’s production, beeswax requires Man’s cooperation.
The bee produces; we merely project-manage.
This arrangement is naturally pleasing to God, who created the bee, and in whose service the bee toils. When lighting such a candle during our prayer time, we give thanks to God and to the rightly ordered world He created, over which he has placed Man as steward.
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