I just read this article about how human bodies emit light. The glow to our skin is app. 1,000 times less than the naked eye can see, but nevertheless we are all glowing. You can check out the article for yourself (on the blogroll as “body light”).
Now, as much as I am tempted to make a half-hearted joke about living so close to Dupont chemicals, I can’t. I can’t joke about it because something sacred emerges out of such scientific news. I am a big believer in the relationship religion and science have, how powerful it is to have evidence yet how superfluous evidence is sometimes. I can view theology as an academic pursuit and still appreciate “faith” as it is understood by some. However, every once in a while a story pops up that reminds me that science is decades behind faith. Science is helping people of God understand things they already knew.
Point in case: we are wrapped in light.
Psalm 104:2 says, “God wraps himself in light, as a garment and stretches the heavens like a tent.” Isaiah 2:5 says, “Let us walk in the light of God.” (how much stronger do you think God’s light is, than ours?) The scriptures about light are abundant, and now we know why. Jesus is the light of the world and light is with us all the time, science says so. hrm. Light–it’s in us and on us and surrounds us–literally.
For those of you who think I’m taking an evangelical fundamentalist turn with my “faith being ahead of science” talk can take comfort in this: the article claims that the most intense light is emitted from one’s head. I recognize that the most powerful tool, with the most “free radicals” (the cause of the light) is found in our very free thinking-reasoning heads.
What wonderful creatures we are, created in the likeness of an even more wonderful being. Who would have thought that light is coming from every surface of our being. I feel like a cross between Harry Potter and a Jedi. Praise be to God; the God of love, light and free radicals.
