I hope you are not afraid of the dark because we are going to be talking about darkness for the next several weeks in our new series: Walking With God In The Dark. The subtitle of the series is, Just because the lights are out doesn’t mean God is not present or something like that. Every single one of us will go through a period of darkness at some point in our lives. When I was in High School, I battled my self identity. In college, it was relationships. When I got married, it was how to quit being so selfish. While raising our family, it was how to provide. Now as I enter a new phase in my life, it’s how to stay alive. It’s always something isn’t it? Our problem, as Miriam Greenspan once said in "Healing Through the Dark Emotions" is that we have a low tolerance for sadness. Wow. That’s profound. We Christians want to live in the light of God’s blessings and avoid darkness at all cost. However, what I have been learning is that God wants to meet me in the dark. I guess I have to start taking some walks in my own dark. One last quote by Jacques Lusseyron, a french author and political activist who became totally blind at the age of 7 said, “The problem with seeing the regular way is that sight naturally prefers outer appearances.” I want to look more deeper than that. God has more for us if we care to stand the dark.
Todd
