dailydatewithgod

It’s funny how something we are so familiar with can get to the point where we are not aware of its existence.  We only notice it when it is absent.  We experience this with light all the time. More often you will hear sometime mention how dark it is versus how much light is present.  We take for granted that we can create light in darkness anytime we want.  Aside from electricity, there is the ability to pull up a shade, light a candle, or turn on a flashlight.  It begs the question of where else is the presence of darkness in our lives where we don’t know we can access light?  Where are the spaces where the possibility of light exists but we don’t know where the switch is or we don’t know how to remove whatever is blocking the light getting through?  Walking around the Enchanted Light Forest at Descanso Gardens this holiday season reminded me of how captivated we are by the presence of light especially when we experience it in contrast to darkness.  We notice how light gives life and shape to the darkness.  We are touched in our hearts by how it dances as if playing with the darkness. Light does not fear the darkness. Most of all, light is a sign of hope that despite all effort darkness has not won out.  Bill W wrote, “It is darkest before the dawn.”  Just when we find ourselves in darkness we can’t imagine every ending, the light peaks on the horizon and a new day begins. Our hearts give us the courage to wander into the darkness knowing we just need to reconnect with the light within ourselves to help illuminate that which we are afraid is a permanent state of being. A light that seems hidden to our eyes is accessible through our hearts.