Light Learning
Throughout history man has been fascinated by light in all its myriad forms. From when we were cavemen sitting around staring into the campfire, to today when we sit in darkened rooms staring at moving pictures flashing on a screen. We even use the ancient light of distant stars to study the universe itself. I asked God why we are so drawn to light, why it is so big a part of our lives. He told me that the answer is right in the Bible, right in the book of Genesis, where it says, In the beginning was darkness and it was without form and void and God said, “Let there be light.”
So that made sense, light was God’s first creation, and that’s reason enough for us to be interested.
But then, God told me that I had cause and effect somewhat confused. It wasn’t because of our fascination with light that we are able to learn so much from studying it. It is because he put so much into light for us to learn, that God made us so fascinated with it. He gave us our great minds to use and wanted to be sure that we didn’t just fritter them away watching soap operas.
I went to Catholic schools until college. I got a very good education, probably because the people teaching me were teachers first and always. This post reminded me of when John Glenn was to orbit the Earth and the teachers begged or borrowed a television for each classroom so we could follow every moment. One of the nuns at the school told us all that if anyone told us that ‘if God had intended us to be in space, He would have put us there’ that we should remember that God gave us brains and curiosity so we could explore His wonders and that the best way to worship God was to go look at all His creations and try to understand.
Thank you for keeping me thinking.