For the light to shape our life, we need to live in the light of Epiphany, experience the manifestation of God's presence in everyday ways. I had planned to write about this when I read the following essay. An 18-year old sat down in school and wrote it as a final exam in her Precollege English class. It captures the realities of everyday life and sees in them epiphanies, the manifestation of God's light in the world. Christmas has passed, but its light needs to continue to expand.
Faith illuminates life.
Following is an epiphany essay written by my daughter, Anna Echelbarger, who is a senior in high school. My friend Erik always tells me that around the end of high school I'll have an epiphany. He says it will change me. I don't doubt what he says, but just the same, I think he's got it all wrong. I don't think that epiphanies are things that you should wait for with fingers crossed and eyes shut.