{"id":43523,"date":"2013-03-04T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=43523"},"modified":"2017-03-02T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T21:02:49","slug":"you-shine-like-the-sun-and-now-we-can-truly-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2013\/03\/04\/you-shine-like-the-sun-and-now-we-can-truly-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You shine like the sun,&#8221; and now we can truly see it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/7\/2013\/03\/shutterstock_88883611_brightsunshine.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/7\/2013\/03\/shutterstock_88883611_brightsunshine-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43526\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many mystics and even some ordinary types have seen it,<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2007\/09\/10\/you-gad-about-shining-like-the-sun\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Merton wrote perhaps the most famous description of it<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, there might actually be a way, now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/27\/scientists-uncover-invisible-motion-in-video\/?smid=fb-share\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the story and video behind it<\/a> is a must-read, must-watch one-two punch. (H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New Advent<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/7\/2013\/03\/NYT-image-1.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/7\/2013\/03\/NYT-image-1-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43524\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Take three minutes <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/27\/scientists-uncover-invisible-motion-in-video\/?smid=fb-share\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to watch the video<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your day just got better, right? Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: Over at Black, White and Gray<\/strong>, Mark Regnerus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/blackwhiteandgray\/2013\/03\/shining-like-the-sun\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">ponders Merton\u2019s vision in light of magnanimity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many mystics and even some ordinary types have seen it, and Thomas Merton wrote perhaps the most famous description of it: \u201cThere is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.\u201d Well, there might actually be a way, now, and the story and video behind it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,168],"tags":[1241,536],"class_list":["post-43523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-hates-science","category-merton","tag-medicine","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;You shine like the sun,&quot; 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