Translucence

Go and read this post at the Painted Prayerbook.

Roll the idea of "translucent with grace" around in your mind.  What would it be like to be translucent with grace?  I imagine that a person who was translucent with grace would be someone through whom Christ could be seen.  It would be someone through whom God's love shines brightly and clearly.  Perhaps one of the goals of sanctification is to make us translucent with grace.

And did you notice the words the dying man is still able to form, even though his brain cancer is moving him beyond the ability to speak?  He still says "random" words -- "blessing, blest, grace, friends, church, my voice, your voice."  There is a scene in the movie The Hunt for Red October when the sonar operator (I think it's the sonar operator -- doesn't matter) says that when the equipment that identifies other ships in the water can't identify then, it "runs home to mother," and call them magma displacement (because the system was geological in origin).  That's a very convoluted analogy to say that when everything is stripped away, it is probably a sign of that translucence that we are left with words of grace.