dailydatewithgod

There is a description written into many plays and scripts as a scene ends after the last line it will say: “Fade to black.”  It means the picture slowly goes black or the stage lights are moment by moment disappearing because it is the end of the play or scene.  It has this finality to it that one cannot turn away from.  One cannot turn away because it happens so slowly it is like we hold on until the very end. When the fade becomes completely black we blink because we want to make sure there isn’t anything more we can see.  There is no explosive end.  In our day to day lives, we do not typically experience this kind of fading.  We turn out the lights when we go to bed.  Our phone and computer screens turn black when we turn them off.  The idea however of fading to black is that the end happens slowly.  When we fade the lights in from our eyes or in our heart we slowly lose the ability to see what is happening and it gives the sense of a disappearance.  The reality is that things change over time.  Sometimes they happen so slowly we do not notice the fading from one phase to another.  We pick up on the more drastic changes.  Sometimes we fall asleep to what is happening right before our eyes because it is fading but still lingering.  Our hearts often pick up on the subtlety of fading in a way our eyes cannot.  We sense the energy draining or the lack of enthusiasm in an experience.  It can tell us something about how present we are to a situation or a person or ourselves.