{"id":9593,"date":"2021-10-05T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2022-03-04T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T21:19:53","slug":"shine-that-enables-us-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2021\/10\/shine-that-enables-us-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Shine That Enables Us to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p>When I think of the dramatic shine of the Transfiguration, it seems hard to believe that it can illuminate my daily life. But I desperately need the shine this morning. So I pull back the opaque curtains in my bedroom to let in the morning light. Lying at the foot of the bed is a book on the iconography of the Transfiguration. The image on the cover is a reproduction of an eleventh-century fresco in the apse of Karanl\u0131k Kilise (the Dark Church) in Cappadocia, Turkey. The mandorla (glowing circle) of light surrounding Christ is perfectly circular. Its center is dark blue, and the radiance emanating from Jesus is represented by two outer rings that are progressively lighter in hue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My two-year-old daughter is standing at the foot of the bed, her chin resting on the mattress right beside the book cover. I look into her eyes, still teary from a tantrum she just threw. Already this morning, she\u2019s stretched my patience thin to breaking. Up at five thirty in the morning demanding juice, then milk, then juice again, she was furious I didn\u2019t honor her request to have cookies for breakfast. Then we crossed ways again over her refusal to have her diaper changed. She raged through the entire process, no doubt waking the neighbors above and below. There is an irrationality particular to willful toddlers that leaves me so frustrated I feel myself teetering on the verge of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s when I look up and see in her eyes the same sphere of radiant blue that encompasses Christ in the fresco\u2014her dark inscrutable iris, ringed by smoky blue, surrounded by milky white. The light in her eyes perfectly mirrors the light of the Transfiguration on the reproduction on the book cover. I can\u2019t avoid the similarity of the shine. And I stagger inside. The light that struck the disciples on Tabor, humbling them to the ground, pierces me too. This child who whittles my patience down to nothing has that same light in her eyes\u2014if I can see past my frustration to that indelible image stamped into her being\u2014the image of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I am still blurry from <a href=\"\/fasting-from-sleep-gods-call-in-the-night\/\">sleeplessness <\/a>but immediately aware that I have to wake up to that image. The shine exposes the flint in my heart\u2014my impatience, my self-centeredness\u2014and it forces me to confront my sin and weakness and ask the Lord to change me. That\u2019s the power of the shine\u2014it leaves me longing to be illuminated, more responsive, more radiant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>A Shine that Changes Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It occurs to me that it was the shine that arrested the apostle Paul on the <a href=\"\/religion-according-to-the-bible\/\">road to Damascus<\/a>, initiating a change so profound that a man hunting Christians with intent to kill was transformed into one of the pillars of the church. In Acts 22, when Paul describes the encounter with Jesus that completely reoriented his life, shine defined the moment: \u201ca great light from heaven suddenly shone around me. And I fell to the ground&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me\u201d (Acts 22:6-7, 11, emphasis added).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shock of the intensity of divine shine initially left Paul in darkness\u2014blind, stumbling, and dependent\u2014but over time, it enabled him to see with a clarity that completely altered his understanding of Jesus\u2019 identity. In his second letter to the Corinthian church, he explains, \u201cFor God, who said, \u2018Let light shine out of darkness,\u2019 has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ\u201d (4:6). The light that initially blinded Paul lit up his interior world, emanating through his mind and soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My encounter with shine this morning may not be a radical, on-the-road-to-Damascus sort of moment, but the internal shift it\u2019s inspiring will make all the difference to the little one standing with her chin propped up on the edge of my mattress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author\"><figure class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar\"><img alt=\"Tina Boesch\" class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__avatar-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/BOESCH-Author-Photo-bordered.png\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__content\"><span class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__name\">Tina Boesch<\/span><p class=\"wp-block-coblocks-author__biography\">is a writer, an editor, and a commissioned artist working in stained glass. She has lived in seven countries on three continents. She, her husband, and their three children live in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"\/tag\/tina-boesch\/\">More from Tina<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3moJOIZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/wp-content\/uploads\/GivenPNG-1-833x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7644\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think of the dramatic shine of the Transfiguration, it seems hard to believe that it can illuminate my daily life. But I desperately need the shine this morning. 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