Light

I love lights. At Christmas I try to put lights all over the outside of the house and on the tree inside. I just love the lights. When it is not Christmas, I have solar lights along the fences, driveway, swings in the yard. Again, I just love coming home and pulling in with all of those lights welcoming me home.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not afraid of the dark. I enjoy early mornings, before even the first hint of sunrise, to let the dark blanket me and the world. Darkness is part of this world and not to be feared. But I love lights and I think you probably do too. Can there be too much light? Oh yes, just come to Texas in July and you will find too much light.

What about in our lives? Can there be too much light there? I think not. I have stood at the corner where Thomas Merton stood and saw everyone glowing with light. He saw a world in which everyone recognized the light within themselves and in others. What would that world be like to live in? You know, a world in which we honored the Light of the World in every living thing.

Christ said, “I am the light of the world”. As I have thought about this and read about it, it has dawned on me that Christ was and is light for the entire world. The word “entire” matters. Merton saw it, Jesus saw it, and I want to see it: the Light of the World in each and every living thing. If we will look for the Light, we will see it. And, if we recognize the Light, we will be it!

TMM