DWELL Missional Church of Burlington, Vermont - A Vermont Church Seeking to be missional in all areas of life.

My husband and I moved to Burlington about three and a half years ago. Before that I had been working as a graphic designers for two and a half years. I loved all four years of college and design was so exciting for me, but after working in the real world, the passion was wearing thin. Moving here forced me to have to search for another job, which was so hard since I lacked a desire to do design any more. God answered my prayers by opening up a job where my husband works and in a field I knew nothing about. I was interviewed, hired and started work in less then 24 hours, God moved fast!

It was a job all about color, and color was a main part of what I loved about design and being creative. Color says so much, it communicates on a whole other level, just like God. Colors have cultural meanings, historical meanings, can be "on trend" or passé, and communicates with no words. And in the last three years, I have learned more about the language of color. Such as red means passion or danger, blue means calm and serene, yellow is warm and happy, white is pure and clean, black is impure or moody. The human eye can take in and recognize over a million colors. There are different levels of complexity of eyes in various organisms, the simplest "eyes", such as those in unicellular organisms, do nothing but detect whether the surroundings are light or dark. Lightness and Darkness, good and evil, pure and impure are main themes that run through out the entire Bible.

Paul relates the gospel to light in 2 Corinthians 4: 1-6: he says

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not loose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, buy by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the gods of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of God should shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake. For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Light is detected by our eyes and it allows us to see beautiful colors. Our eyes are either symbolically full of light or full of darkness. Opened or closed.

So as we come into worship, we should have a singular heart and opened eyes for Christ Jesus alone, and know that His light shines into this world, opening blind eyes to see his truth and reveal the saving gospel of peace, giving hope here and now.

I love this lyric by Switchfoot: "The shadow proves the sunshine."

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