"The presence of color is at the very heart of human life," the beautiful John O'Donohue wrote.

   If that is so, our lucky eyes engage yellow as the brightest color on the spectrum of our spirit. 

   Yellow. Glorious, thrilling, sprightly yellow. We crave the sun & children crayon it yellow. That's what my oldest granddaughter did. I added the bananas & was surprised when bananas & drawing merged as one in the photograph. 

   Dressed in white at the starting line sunlight gallops 93 million miles at 186,000 miles per second through an atmosphere that paints it yellow upon arrival.   

   Current wisdom is that nothing can fly faster than light. (If anything could, would that thing go backwards in time?) But, throughout the journey all colors hide in white until revealed by the prism effect or experienced individually. 

   The moment a color enters our eyes it instantly impacts our mood because it changes our life's vibrations. O'Donohue believed that because light alternately meets resistance & penetrates "the activity that gives an object its color has all the play and excitement of lovemaking."

   Yellow has the power to raise our moods. Goethe wrote how that particular color makes our hearts dance: "Yellow brings with her the nature of brightness and has a delightful, encouraging, exciting and soft quality."

   Since this is so why not add more yellow to the dull greens & harsh florescence that often illuminate the environments of the ill?

   Through what eyes do we see? When we experience God as light then holiness drenches everything. Even bananas paired with a child's drawing. 

-Reverend Erie Chapman