Light in Darkness

When the darkness is so deep it seems too pervasive to ever escape, the reality of the inner Light which was present in the moment of creation still shines.  "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it."  (John 1:5)  In the moment of our conception that Light shines forth in the deep darkness of the womb.  In a place where life is formed and there is absolute and total darkness, there comes a light which is never diminished.  Never diminished may seem like an impossible stretch for us in some moments which come to us, but it remains unalterably true.    

As we begin to move away from the shining of that initial eternal and creating Light shining upon us, we lose sight of how it is the source of all that is life giving and life sustaining.  Circumstances filled with darkness, the deep darkness of sin and disobedience, and even the deeper darkness of death itself does not have the inherent power to overcome this Light which we have come to know as the Light of the World.  "...the darkness did not overcome it (the Light)."  (John 1:5)  Impossible as it seems we lose sight of the Light of our beginning, but it never ceases to shine within us.    

When some pass into the moment of death and through some great mystery are enabled to return to this thing we know as life, there is in so many cases a reporting of a great light.  It is spoken of as a light which is overpoweringly transcendent.  It is as if somehow we finally step out of the shadows which have plagued us, keeping us from seeing and experiencing completely the Light for which our soul has searched and sought since the moment of our beginning.  Instead of death overcoming us, death opens the door finally so that every vestige of the darkness is removed from our living, enabling us to live with the eternal glory of God's light wrapped all around us.  Thanks be to God!