Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Post for Thursday September 16th

Our reading assignment to do before Thursday was to read Professor Corrigan's article "Darkness, Questions, Poetry, and Spiritual Hope". I am going to focus more on the "darkness" part of the article. If there was no darkness then we could never tell what the light was either. The Bible tells us that we, as Christians, are the light of the world. If you think about it, if there was no sin or worldly temptations, the "dark", you couldn't really tell that we were the "light". There would be nothing to compare the light to, no opposite that wants the light to lessen so the opposite can grow in size and intensity. I think sometimes it takes darkness for us to truly appreciate the light we have. When we see the sins and the situations that make up what is darkness it makes us happier and feel blessed to be in the light, at least it does for me. Funny thing about darkness, every time the light gets closer and more luminous it retreats further back and shrinks. If we think of that in terms of the enemy and us we have a little bit of the spiritual realm revealed to us. We see that every time we step closer and take a strike at the enemy they retreat. They run and hide. They are fearful of the light. Light destroys them. We don't really have to be afraid of the dark. Darkness is much more afraid of the light. Light can increase in intensity and grow on its own. Darkness depends on the lack of light to increase and grow. Darkness can only advance if we, the light, back off and give it the opportunity to. Why be afraid of something we control? The darkness is afraid because we control it! Did you that the dictionary definition of darkness is the absence or deficiency of light? I'm not sure where I am going with all of this but it is what comes to mind when I think of darkness, especially in spiritual terms.