God looks clearly and directly both at love and sin, it is the greatness of God’s love that overcomes and engulfs and defeats the power of evil, and so to eschew or seek to ignore darkness does not defeat it, but allows it to thrive, unmonitored and unchecked by the love which flows through each of us from God.
We need not be afraid to look at our sin, our darkness, our failings, our shortcomings; we always stand against them with the most powerful and loving companion who, in the end, vanquishes the darkness for us.
This is inspired by the fortieth chapter of Julian of Norwich's long text, Revelations of Divine Love.
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