God as Light
Moving from here to there yesterday I realized that light and darkness are not opposites.
Rather, they are always in close relationship. Within the dark days of our lives
- in those moments when we feel as though we are not able to see anything more
in life - God as Light allows us to see what is there in the darkness. It is not
as though light creates something new. It is more like light allows us to see what
is not able to be seen - yet. There is the darkness is the beginning of that for
which we hope. That is the stuff we cannot see and yet it is there. The light helps
us see some of the shape of what we cannot yet see. God as light is like hope. Yes,
there is not much vision or perception now - but there will always be some light.
When light shines, darkness is seen anew. Shine the light under the bed and we find
out that there are things under the bed and none of them are the monsters we once
thought were there waiting for our feet to touch the floor. In fact, beneath the
bed - in that darkness is - that one lost sock that now gives us a new pair to
wear - that missing piece of the puzzle we almost threw away.
Sometimes in the darkness of our lives we stumble across treasures that make us
a bolder and stronger people. Light enables us to lift them out and pull them up
to light so that we can share with others the reality that is not yet seen by the
world. It is in that sharing of darkness with light that we all begin to enter into
more and more truthfulness.
O God of love and new life, as we walk in times of darkness and experience life
that is often ignored, we pray that your Spirit will bring light that opens up the
darkness and opens up lives that are not yet fully available. Amen.
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