Waiting in the Darkness
by Richard Rohr
The darkness will never totally go away. I've worked long enough in ministry to know that darkness isn't going to disappear, but that, as John's Gospel says,"the light shines on inside of the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it" (1:5). Such is the Christian form of yin-yang, our own belief in paradox and mystery.
We must all hope and work to eliminate darkness, especially in many of the great social issues of our time. We wish world hunger would be eliminated. We wish that we could stop using the earth's resources on armaments. We wish that we could stop killing people....But at a certain point , we ave to surrender to the fact that the darkness has always been here, and the only real question is how to receive the light and spread the light.
From Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent (Franciscan Media, 2008) pp. 26-7.
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