Darker Days

These have been the darker days of Covid 19. The whole world breathes heavy and labored for air now in various ways. The lofty world goals have been forced to fall and simple ones remain: to breathe, to eat, to find hope, light and health again. maybe even laugh again. Many are sick and hospitalized, some suffer financially, some from aching loneliness, some from the imprisonment within 4 walls of hard circumstances at home, some suffer from holding too tight to lesser light that can never give fully or free fully... like He can....the lists goes on. I suffer from many of these.

Nevertheless, there is a beauty to this darkness. It is revealing the need for Light. I've only found one source of  Light...and i am forever changed and greatFULL to have found it. Jesus..His Word..His Light that dispels the darknesses of the world...the One my heart longs for..the One that says "even darkness isn't dark to Him" Psalm 139:12. The One that warms, the One that says when i am WITH Him...darkness will have to flee....Stay by us oh Lord. Cause our hearts to stay near.

Each day i wake to a world with both: Dark and Light. I tend to focus on one or the other. It gets harder to focus on the light....when the darkness is pressing in...a darkness i can almost feel lately like a heavy fog blanket being laid upon me. If it covers me fully...even then, the Word says...darkness is not dark to HIM. As for hope...sometimes the light is just a sliver in the corner. But it's enough to illuminate. It's enough to set my eyes in focus. It is enough. "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it"  John 1:5

Darker Days photo shoot with my family...inspired by the light.