Saturday, June 28, 2008 - Musings on Light

Light is amazing stuff.

A couple things especially stand out to me. They strike me. Good thing being hit by light doesn't hurt (unless of course you're in a situation like Saul on the road to Damascus. Then all bets are off.)

#1 The silence of light. You can flip on a light switch in another room and no one hears a thing. Dawn comes silently. And as the Christmas carol says,

How silently, how silently, the wondrous Gift is giv’n;
So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His Heav’n.

#2 The non-fillingness of light (or the lightness of light ). In the winter, I always feel I ought to leave the light on in a room when I will be gone a short while, just as the heat stays on, so that the room will be full of light when I return. I actually picture light filling the room from bottom to top, just like the room were a large aquarium and filling with luminous water and taking a little while to fill the room. I picture the light spilling a little out the windows and through doorways into other rooms, but not filling them, it just kind of glops out like a really think glaze on a cake. But light is not like that. It is just there so quickly it seems immediate to us.

I posted awhile back about my desire to invent a new color. I want to add to that idea a further embellishment. We are created in God's image, "the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change." Maybe as part of reflecting His glory, we shine in our own color. And maybe, just maybe, that is why I desire a new color ~ because there are so many and I am one.

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