BYU President Shane Reese invited students Tuesday to help increase the light in their lives and on campus by sharing their gifts of light during the university’s 150th year.

He shared parables with profound lessons about how to become excellent givers and receivers of gifts of light. His main point was that those who effectively share light recognize and respond to the need of the receiver of the gift and then give the gift freely.

Reese extended his invitation minutes after an unusual start to the school’s weekly devotional at the Marriott Center in Provo.

The president stood up before an opening musical performance and spoke about the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk in Orem, four miles up University Parkway at Utah Valley University.

“My dear students, the answer to darkness

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