"you're here to be light, bringing out the God colours in the world"
Tucked into her bed, a little girl asks her father why the sky was so dark at night, and so he tells her a story, telling it as though God gave us tongues for the sake of wondrous tales. He tells her that there was enough darkness in the world - if the roads were a lot darker, the walls a lot darker, the fields a lot darker and each building a lot darker, the whole place would seem a whole lot smaller and duller, and everyone would be sadder. So God took all the black in the world and threw it up to the skies, thereby we have night.
“This does not mean that the night is the time to be sad,” he continued. “Rather, God gives us this time to take a break from the happiness we enjoy in the day. It is God’s little way of closing the curtains and saying ‘we’ll be back right after the break’. Which is why each morning when you wake up you smile - you know that God has made a way for the day ahead to be bright and full of cheer.”
“The day is bright so we can see all that is good. We see the sky in light blue and we know we will see the flight of a hundred, thousand birds, joyous to be that much closer to heaven. We see green of the trees in the fields and hear how they clap their hands to the beat of dancing children, laughing and twirling and laughing again in the meadows. We see the flowers in the gardens, in the forest, up the hills, one in every colour, and we feel God’s creative force beaming all around us.”
“This is how I grew up feeling safe as I ran through the streets and rolled about at the playgrounds,” he said as he planted a kiss on her forehead, which fell as she closed her eyes. “This is how I know you’ll be alright when you’re out there, and I’m not with you.”
“This does not mean that the night is the time to be sad,” he continued. “Rather, God gives us this time to take a break from the happiness we enjoy in the day. It is God’s little way of closing the curtains and saying ‘we’ll be back right after the break’. Which is why each morning when you wake up you smile - you know that God has made a way for the day ahead to be bright and full of cheer.”
“The day is bright so we can see all that is good. We see the sky in light blue and we know we will see the flight of a hundred, thousand birds, joyous to be that much closer to heaven. We see green of the trees in the fields and hear how they clap their hands to the beat of dancing children, laughing and twirling and laughing again in the meadows. We see the flowers in the gardens, in the forest, up the hills, one in every colour, and we feel God’s creative force beaming all around us.”
“This is how I grew up feeling safe as I ran through the streets and rolled about at the playgrounds,” he said as he planted a kiss on her forehead, which fell as she closed her eyes. “This is how I know you’ll be alright when you’re out there, and I’m not with you.”