My son crawled into bed with me this morning, and began reading his new "Action Bible" for kids. He started on page one. "In the beginning, God created Light."
All of a sudden, as he read that, it came to me what Light meant. I'd always thought the Creation story was so.... out of sequence. God creates light on day 1, but doesn't make the sun until day 4. So... how did that work? IN my ego-centric, earth-centric mind, light came from the SUN. But that's DAYLIGHT. Not LIGHT. And it says that God separated the Light from the Dark. Could that mean Heaven? Is the story describing the separation of Good from Evil, Love from Hate, God from the Devil? He CREATED light - the dark was just the void without light. So often we use words to describe God, as if they're analogies, but sometimes I think certain created things in our experience are actually BEYOND analogies. Light. Water. God's not just "like" light. It's not merely a description. I think LIGHT is an imprint of God on His creation, the universe. Jesus is the LIGHT of the World. There's a reason that Jesus appeared bright as the sun during the Transfiguration. Radiance, life-giving energy. That which allows us to SEE the world around us, causes all things to grow. That which reveals what is hidden. That which is pure energy. Light. God's first creation.
HMMMMM.
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