Let your light shine...

Light is the symbol of truth by James Russell Lowell

I have looked at this poster for some time--and felt its message about light representing truth.  I say "felt" instead of "understood" because truth is less a movement of the head and more of transparency--the seeing through to the heart of things.  Do we all know the story of the mother who walked her child through Westminster Abbey.  The little girl stopped and said, "Oh my, look how the saints let in the light."  Transparency is the medium for the truth--it lets in a reality that is greater than we are.  Saints let in the light and people saw and experienced truth.  They did not learn it in a a classroom with a formula.  That is rather the process for learning what is correct!  Think on this one.  Who is it in your life that lets the light in and what does that mean to you?  They let you see into the heart of things...or as Philips Brooks, Anglican Preacher said, "personality is the medium of the truth." That's where we let the light in.  Just as others have let in the light for you--how is it that you let in the light, become transparent for others?  Jesus answered it this way.  Live toward God, and the light shines in and through you.  He called himself "the Light of the world."  He let in the light of God.  I wonder.  As we live toward Jesus, is that how Christians let in the light of God?