Where is God?

February book club – Boundless Light.  (Have blog readers wondered where I was?  I am rather addicted to writing for this wonderful book club.) I have just found the right bookshelf to look for the book.  My books have been tidied for me!!

Anyway, opened to where the bookmark was sitting at His Shining Light (p. 26) by David Littlefield Horn.  It fits beautifully with this morning's thinking...Earlier this morning, I thought to look up some of L. Ivimy Gwalter’s writings on Christian Science on JSH-Online. In her article Do you know who you are? http://journal.christianscience.com/issues/1974/1/92-1/do-you-know-who-you-are

 I like this:

A little boy was asked by a sceptical friend where God was.  ‘Is He here?’ asked the friend.  ‘Oh, yes,’ was the instant reply, ‘Is he down the street?’ ‘O, yes.’ ‘Is he off at the far end of town”’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Well, if you were all by yourself on a desert island, with nobody else there, would God be there?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ replied the little boy. ‘But how do you know?’  To which came the quick response, ‘Because I’d be there, wouldn’t I?’  (The Christian Science Journal, Jan. 1974)

 

And considering the theme of ‘worship’ (Noah Webster on ‘worship’ – To adore; to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration) in this week's Christian Science Bible Lesson I came to the conclusion that to worship God I have to worship me for I am, as the poem indicates, the light of God.

 

So, to quote the poem in full –

His Shining Light

 

For many years I wiped and scrubbed

and rubbed the windowpane I thought was me

to be a clear transparency

for Truth.

But I was never crystal-clear

nor felt my victory quite so near

as when I learned that man is not

transparency.

He’s light!

Much more than spots where God shines through,

we are His shining, bright and true.

- David Littlefield Horn 

Joyce Voysey