December 11, 2011: It Is Inside You – Michael Hidalgo

Jesus tells his disciples, and the crowd that has gathered around them. “You are the light of the world …” Curious, isn’t it? Of all the things he could have said he tells those listening they are light. These words echo the prophet Isaiah in which God tells the people of Israel they will be a light for the nations and rescue people from darkness. 

This all goes back of course to the garden when God creates the man and the woman. They are made in his image – the image of God who is light. Humankind has been created with a bit of light in us. The Celtics believed that our job as humans was to see that light and help others see it too.  Do you realize what this means? It means that we are, as God said to Moses, “like God” to dark, hurting and hopeless world.