There is much darkness in our world.

It is tempting to believe it will always be so.

The darkness feels thick, impossible to escape.

We see glimmers of light here and there, glimpses of what should be, but the darkness continues to prevail.

Yet once in time, Light entered our world, and we who walk in darkness saw His face.

Light came for a time,

then He left, returning to the Father, leaving the darkness unchanged.

The same hatred, the same selfishness, the same desire to be God,

it all fills the earth just as much as it did before the Light was made flesh and dwelt among us.

Yet something has changed.

The quality of the darkness has changed somehow. It feels different.

It feels…

desperate.

There is a frenzied quality to it, as though the darkness is no longer in its fullness, as though the Light who came was only a foretaste of what is to come.

There is much darkness in our world.

Yet the darkness that surrounds us feels now more like the deep darkness that comes just before the inexorable dawn.

So keep watch.

Keep watch for the glimmers of light all around us.

Be a spark of light in the darkness around you.

No matter how dark the darkness, lift up your head and keep watch.

Morning is just over the horizon.

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Art credit: final photograph is by Kirk Sewell; all other photographs are copyright Made Sacred 2019