Luminescence

I have always delighted in the magic of phosphorescent sparkles in late summer swims and boat rides.  I have been taken back into those memories of warm evenings with sea and dark sky meeting in the stars and lights in the deep water this last weekend at the Vancouver Aquarium.  Luminescence is being celebrated in these dark winter days there. Lovely displays of inner light shining from jelly fish to corals to anemones.  Light coming seemingly by surprise from nowhere, glowing in the deep!  In actuality, it is light from deep within many different forms of life.  Life energy peeking out and bringing beauty and a myriad of other useful physiological attributes!

As I lie in bed at night I have lately been in the habit of relaxing by imagining light from deep within radiating through me.  Sometimes together with the children I stand and feel the light of God coming down from above, moving from the top of our heads, through our bodies, down through our feet and deep into the layers of ground beneath us to meet the light again in the core of the earth.  Light is such a rich and full concept of positive energy and life.  It is both grounding and expansive, inwardly illuminating and outwardly shining.

It is dark and rainy and cold in our part of the world these days.  I am delighting in imagining God's luminescent light shining in each of us with sparkles of radiant life like those phosphorescent summer evenings of my memory.  May life affirming luminescence come from within us and bring warmth and joy to each other on these rather dreary and ordinary days.