POINTS OF LIGHT

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Ironically the desperate circumstances brought on by the pandemic seem to be releasing a burst of creativity in response to our awareness of the need to participate in healing the world's suffering.  

In reflecting on the words "Points of Light" which George Bush used in a speech and which became something of a mantra for him, I was led to CS Lewis' Magician's Nephew from his series Chronicles of Narnia. Although the speechwriter did not attribute "Points to Light" to Lewis, I am happy to connect it in my mind to to the image of the creative moment when the Light and the Music join to reveal a new, more perfect, world coming into being.
 
"In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard...
Then two wonders happened at the same time. One was the voice was suddenly joined by other voices, more voices than you could possibly count. Then there was harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once was blasting with stars. They didn't come out gently one by one, as they do on a summer evening. One moment there had been nothing but darkness, next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out - single stars, constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world. There were no clouds. The new stars and the new voices began at exactly the same time. If you had see and heard it as Digory did, you would have felt quite certain that it was the stars themselves who were singing, and that it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and had made them sing.
...Polly was finding the song more and more interesting because she thought she was beginning to see the connection between the music and the thing that were happening...When you listened to his song you heard the things he was making up: when you looked around you, you saw them."
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