Witness to Light

I will put my laws in their minds,

and write them on their hearts,

and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.

Hebrews 8

When we act from the heart, informed by prayer, our behavior has a quality of luminescence.  We, in fact, witness to the beauty of God through our actions.  We become transparent to the reality of God within us and we encourage others to strip away the masks of fear and become willing to becomes witnesses of light.

We see this incandescence in Moses after he has met with God.  Tradition tells us that St. Anthony of the Desert  had a face radiant with light after 40 years wrestling with demons.

And yet, I believe that most of us have witnessed this in less dramatic ways than the tradition recounts.  When I was a small girl, living in Alaska, I went to Sunday school in a small cabin.  The lessons were conducted by a wise older Athabascan woman.  She knew the stories of Jesus, she knew the realities of life, but above all she belonged to Christ.  She was His. 

I don’t remember the stories.  I don’t remember her name.  But I was changed by her presence.  She saw within my heart and encouraged me to know myself as God’s own child.

This is what it means to have God’s law in my mind and heart.  God is not separate from me.  I am not separate from God’s people.  We are all one.  Our connection comes from the heart of God and extends out through time and space to include the ancestors, our peers, our descendents and everything in-between. 

We are God’s people.

Let us rejoice and be glad in the family of our soul.

Blessings,

Debra