The Wonderful World of Color

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8).

…We live in God’s world, but we do not in the least know it as it is. Heaven lies all about us --- but because we are lacking in spiritual perception, we are unable to recognize it, to experience it, and, therefore, so far as we are concerned, we nay be shut out of it.
    We are very much in the position of a color-blind man in a beautiful garden. All around him are glorious colors, but he sees only black and whites, and grays….

Around the World

With Emmet Fox, p. 90

 

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The Resurrection of Christ is celebrated this year the day before an unofficial holiday that is of equal importance to me: April Fools Day. It’s not so much out of polemic sarcasm that I relate the two but it is the recognition of the value of each: One, the resurrection, and, two, a day for practical jokes that can humble rather than humiliate us. Rising from the tomb above the black and white world of right and wrong and shades of gray, our Christ within transcends into what Disney called, “the Wonderful World of Color”, and this is what takes place on the Easter of my soul. The world of color on the Easter Egg takes on a new meaning beyond the imaginary world (where the rabbit brings them in a neat basket to our delight as children)… we are reborn and our sight is renewed along with an accurate appraisal of ourselves in the dark tomb. Our holy spirit has rolled away the stone and we have not only seen the light but we have become the light. In that sense, becoming light hearted enough to even rise above the fear of death. Pure in heart, we can then play the fool tomorrow if we so choose… without fear; without contempt; without false pride… a fool* for Christ’s sake.

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*We are fools for Christ's sake, but we are wise in Christ... (I Corinthians 4:10).