GOD SHOWS HIMSELF IN DISPLAYS OF LIGHT AT TIMES WHEN THERE IS GREAT DARKNESS
By Michael H. Brown
I'm intrigued by phenomena that deal with light, because as we all know, Christ is the Light. Let me add that God sends light at times of great darkness.
Countless are the reports of strange formations or radiations that are attributed to the sun or to the way its light filters into a camera. The same is true of other astronomical systems and to luminosities involving the northern lights. At times, there seems to be something very different about them. At times, they appear to form images.
Is it all just a coincidence -- the phenomenon of "pareidolia," in which we see what we want to see, in which we simply imagine -- or is it God inflecting hints into the course of nature?
The reports of sun miracles continue to come from around the world and have since the great Fatima sun miracle. Take a look at this video. It requires a while to load, but it shows the sun doing things that seem beyond the quirks of a camera. Is it a real phenomenon or might it only be the camera's shutter opening and closing and trying to focus?
Many times, it is the timing and the feeling that comes with it that counts.
The sun seems to wink at times when we need it to wink, and there are many cases where its reflections have come at very interesting moments, from photos of John Paul II to the landscapes of churches. I have seen cases where the Virgin seemed to appear in startling details in the aura around the solar orb or where a full cross radiated down from the sun, to what seemed like ground level.
Sometimes, such matters are not so clear, but in certain cases it goes beyond normal plausibility. For example, at the home of Vicka Ivankovic Miatovic in Medjugorje, thick flames of light have been photographed on a number of occasions and seem like manifestations (photos above left).
True, some of it could be light bleeding into film, or simple distortions. No doubt, there are a number of possible explanations. But it seems to defy the odds that the light comes from the sky through vines above and then from behind the seer it goes right through a prayer book she is holding.
Meanwhile, millions have reported the sun spinning and are able to stare at it in a way that defies science. They can look at it for five or ten minutes at a time, sometimes longer, without even experiencing spots afterward. There is the "disc" or Host -- as at Fatima -- that seems to move in front of it. I have seen this in Bosnia-Hercegovina, France, Italy, Venezuela, the United States, and other countries. I once consulted an astronomer from Columbia University named Dr. Joseph Patterson who said that ten seconds should be enough to cause damage by burning into the retina.
Just two weeks ago, we received the photo to the left. There is distortion that might make an expert wince, but it is curious how similar it is to the photo (at the top) taken many years ago at the home of Vicka, this woman whom many claim has healed them (causing them to feel sudden heat).
Yet a third similar light was photographed at Medjugorje coming toward a pilgrim through a statue on the Hill of Apparitions.
In one case a stream of light at Medjugorje, caught on film, formed a colored image resembling the Virgin of Guadalupe. In other cases, light "reflections" resemble a silhouette of the Madonna. Or statues themselves seem to illuminate.
We really don't understand what light is. I remember back in the 1970s, when I was startled by a headline in The New York Times that said scientists were now unsure how the sun worked. For decades, they had been teaching us that the closest star is a mass of nuclear-hydrogen reactions. Now, it seems, they aren't so sure. I don't think they know -- for sure -- to this day. Is it really just burning off its own fuel, or are stars portals to other dimensions (the other side of black holes, or at least a point at which energy from God streams into our domain?)
That's all wild speculation. And it doesn't matter: God can control it no matter what it is. What is not so wild is that the sun seems to cast rays at pointed times and many of us have experienced this. If the sun was actually doing what so many see, everyone in the world would notice, and they do not; it is individualistic, or confined to small groups, and it shows how the supernatural can control our individual realities, even the way we perceive.
Let us never consider such things as trivial. Nothing God does is trivial, and there is no such thing as coincidence, whatever "natural" explanations we can come up with.
Don't try to make God prove Himself. It's not up to Him to do that. It's up to us to prove ourselves to Him.
He owns nature and He is too big to be studied. He can be captured neither by a microscope nor a telescope.
God is love. Love is light. Light is life. God is the light of life that loves. This we need to know, and in the end it's far more important than how the sun shines or anything else.
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