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Natalie Hughes: Hope at the Speed of Light.

By on August 19, 2013
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My hubby reads to my daughter at bedtime. I should say that I often do as well — she gets on a kick where she prefers one of us over the other. She likes the way he reads Roald Dahl, and she likes the way I read Junie B. Jones or make up ridiculous tales that end in fits of laughter, and rather unfortunately, not enough sleep. I’m too silly when I’m tired, and let’s be honest, I tire out earlier than the kids these days.

Tonight, on a lovely clear August night in a rural enough setting where the constellations are brightly telling their age-old stories, Michael took our daughter out to look at the night sky hoping to see a shooting star. Afterward he answered some of her questions by reading from a children’s space education website on the iPad. “Do stars die, dad?” Yes, they do. And as he explained the process of a star collapsing into a black hole, I had a flash of something… some kind of small, human understanding connected to the universe.

I thought about how universal happenings have occurred millions of light years away – and ago – but we only have the capability to see them when the light reaches us.

Stars have already been born that we can’t see because their light just isn’t here yet.

Fires have already ceased that we think are still burning.

We have limited vision from here. We are born, most of us, with the light processing instruments of our eyes, hitched up through nerves to our brains. We see the world around us as light bounces off of its contents. We see colour when the different parts of the light spectrum are either absorbed or reflected, observed and appreciated by us only after the time it takes for that information to travel from the source to its reception.

 

It takes time to see things that are already done.

 

It’s a universal truth and it applies so perfectly to the microcosms of our individual lives.

And this is the message of hope that it gives me on this black night:

“You know that dream you have for your life? That vision that has not yet been realized?

It’s done. It’s a done deal. If you can’t see the result you want, it’s just because the beam’s not shining on it yet. But it’s coming, moving toward you, steadily, quickly, surely, across the universe at the precise speed of light.”

And I say back to the universe, “Hey, you got anything faster?” And I smile.

I’m so cheeky sometimes.

 

beauty_backNatalie Hughes is the Editor in Chief of simplywoman.com, a singer/songwriter, recording artist, the co-host of The Crystal Andrus Show on CBS New Sky Radio, and the musical director for Crystal Andrus Productions. For more visit nataliehughes.com and find Natalie on iTunes,  Twitter and Facebook.

 

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