The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 15:1
it is always darkest before the dawn
A simple yet profound proverb … yet, most experts would say that it is not true that it is physically darkest just before the dawn.
I think it is a saying because we so desire the hope in believing that that things will get better, when we are in our darkest places.
Today is the day after the winter solstice … the day after the longest day. From this day on, the days get longer, lighter. Light is on its way. The thought of more light makes me feel … lighter.
“Quiet my mind when it is already certain that nothing could possible be different.”
Kate Bowler
When the heaviness of the dark comes, whether that dark has to do with time of year, or situations in life, sometimes one has to realize that we have no control in the situation … except our response. For darkness, it just comes, seeming to push out light. But, we do not have to embrace the darkness. Maybe we have to learn to live with it, but we can also choose to focus on the light.
Advent doesn’t deny the dark within us
Advent isn’t afraid of the dark around us
Advent doesn’t rush through the dark ahead of us
Advent sits in the dark and yearns
for the light of the only One
who went to the the Tree of Calvary
-Ann Voskamp
The light is coming. It is coming to the Northern hemisphere, it is also coming to us through the advent season, as we await the celebrations of the coming of our Messiah and as we await his return. He is the light of the world. He comes to brighten our world, to take away sin, heartache, disappointments, disease, struggle, death. For now he has paid the exorbitant price of our human sin. When he returns, he will make all things new, a new garden.
And so, we look toward the increasing light of the Son.
I am writing a new commandment to you,
1 John 2:8
which is true in Him and in you,
because the darkness is passing away
and the true Light is already shining.”
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