Mercy: Day 6 – Shade
For anyone who lives in a region of the world where it is hot, like in a desert, I think it goes without saying that shade there is a great blessing and mercy. Temperatures in the shade can easily be 20 to 30 degrees cooler than in the sun.
However, I want to look at shade in a different way. Actually from a different meaning altogether. If we understand light then we should know that light, pure light, is invisible. I have mentioned it before in this journal that right now, there is light passing between you and this monitor and you cannot see it. Likewise, in the total absence of light we can’t see anything either. Mix the two, pure light and pure darkness and the result is shade. It is only in the shade that we can actually see. This mixing produces a spectrum of intensities that range from pure darkness to pure light. Also, depending on the physical objects basking in this shade, we also see hues of varying color. Mixed with the intensities, we get all the millions upon millions of possibilities in the visual spectrum that we observe in the world, all of them emanating because of shade.
In spite of the digital nature of Creation, in its continuous flip-flopping between existence and non-existence at the hand of the Sustainer, the resulting interaction of shade produces a continuous spectrum from pure darkness to pure light. It leaves the heart in awe and the mind in unfathomable perplexity. At the same time, by permission of The Light, one of the 99 beautiful names of God, we are given a glimpse of this amazing Creation through the mercy of shade. It leaves me in humble awe every time I look out to see.
Postscript Light
Till tomorrow, Peace.
