What matters is to live in and from God's heart. Like the sun, quickening warmth belongs to the brightness of his being. The light he gives creates community and draws people together in joy, with love flowing from the depths of their souls and finding expression in constructive deeds that build up and never destroy. Sunlight sparkles with life and generates life on the earth, making it germinate and bear fruit everywhere. Those who live in the light belong to life and find their way in the sunlight.
Night is dead because it is cold and dark.
Yet even in the life of the light and sun there is a dying. Because our life moves between day and night, we can gain the life of resurrection only by dying. No light can radiate brightness and warmth without consuming itself. The greatest man, in giving light, suffered this most violently. The light of the world went forth from the cross of Jesus.