The problem with living on a swiftly tilting planet, though, is that while the Northern Hemisphere world is walking down the darkness towards the morning, the Southern side has reached the peak of light and is trending towards darkness.
And the other problem with all this God is Light stuff is that it leaves out the holy darkness, the deep underground stuff that uphold all things -- things we call good, and things we call evil. Living with a blind person has made me think about darkness quite a bit. I can no longer reject it as even symbolic of evil. It's another place where God is found.
But as C.S. Lewis and a few others have noted, we can have all sorts of different images in our minds for God. None of them is God; all of them point the way. We have to make sure not to confuse image with reality, though.
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And the other problem with all this God is Light stuff is that it leaves out the holy darkness, the deep underground stuff that uphold all things -- things we call good, and things we call evil. Living with a blind person has made me think about darkness quite a bit. I can no longer reject it as even symbolic of evil. It's another place where God is found.
But as C.S. Lewis and a few others have noted, we can have all sorts of different images in our minds for God. None of them is God; all of them point the way. We have to make sure not to confuse image with reality, though.
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