Ron Rolheiser, OMI reflects on the beauty of light and morality

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In the Hebrew Scriptures we are presented with the rainbow as a sign of the resurrection and of God's unconditional love for us. What a beautiful, wonderful, apt symbol! A rainbow bends light so as to refract it and show what it looks like on the inside, its colours, its mystery, its spectacular beauty. Light has a beautiful inside that we can't always see.

THE BEAUTY OF LIGHT AND MORALITY

God is light! Scripture tells us that. That's more than metaphor. God is the author of all that is, physical and spiritual, and in the refraction of light we get to see a little bit of what God looks like on the inside. In a rainbow we get to see, physically see, something of God. Small wonder a rainbow can take your breath away. Of course God isn't physical, but God is the ground of all being, the physical no less than the spiritual, and in the refraction of light we get to see something of the beauty of God.

We are the poorer for not understanding that. We speak of God as love, but God is also beauty and thus many things, the rainbow being one of them, the human body being another, physically refract that beauty and show us what that beauty can look like in living colour.

What does this have to do with morality?

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