dailydatewithgod

God makes the light of love obvious.  It is not hard to find.  Often we are looking in the wrong direction or our vision is clouded over by our experience of darkness.  Darkness however, only exists in the absence of light. It is not in and of itself anything.  There are no qualities of darkness other than it being a space or an experience lacking light.  The moment we invite God into the darkness we are experiencing, it brightens up.  If we have been living and mulling around in the darkness, we may not like what we see with the brightness at first.  But at least we will begin to see the truth of what we are dealing with instead of fooling ourselves that we were being very successful in the darkness.  My lack of brightness only works when I hold the idea that God would not want to venture into my darkness.  I think I have to go it alone and so I don’t bother to engage God or consider God’s interest in me and all parts of my life.  The real irony of course, is when I do summon up the willingness to crack open the door of my darkness and let the brightness in, God is usually already there.  God smiles and says, good you are here, now I can show you the gifts underneath the things you have been hiding out of fear and shame.