Article October 9, 1989 Issue

Light, color, and healing

Spiritual lessons from the leaves of an acacia tree.

Frances Smart Engel

As a child I made a game of looking for broken shards of colored glass in the yard of a glass shop. The dull, almost colorless pieces on the ground became gems of beauty as I held them up to the sunlight.

In later years I learned that the gorgeous color I had seen was not in the glass but was reflected color from one of the hidden hues of daylight (those colors we see in a rainbow).

This lesson has special meaning in the context of a particular healing I once had that showed me how to bring out more color in my life—how to know and demonstrate holiness, health, and joy as the reflection of divine Light, God. John speaks of Light in his First Epistle: "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."^{I John 1:5.}

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