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DARKNESS

DARKNESS

By looking at this picture can you tell where it was taken?  Can you tell what lies beyond the light in the corners where the light disappears and is replaced with a grayish black?  Perhaps you were able to see right away that it is a road with street lamps and a speed limit sign.  Beyond that what can you see?  Is this a busy street in a city or maybe a little-traveled side street in a small town.  Could this possibly be in the country and the light you see is from a farm yard a bit further in the distance?  Was the picture taken in motion or standing still?  Darkness can teach us many lessons.

Maybe the most important lesson I've learned from darkness is to appreciate the light.  Life can be lived in the shadows and once that lesson is learned then it is much more freeing and empowering to dance in the light.  In fact, once the specter of darkness is no longer something to fear then darkness seems to all but vanish because there is always light even in the darkest of darkness.  From the very beginning light was being spoken into the darkness and it was good.

Dance in the light but also learn to dance in the darkness.