Wednesday, December 18, 2019

LIGHT BREAKS INTO DARKNESS

“The people walking in darkness
    have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of deep darkness
    a light has dawned.”  (Isaiah 9:2 NIV)

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.  It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life.  It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual…when our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us… Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying, "You are accepted."

-- Paul Tillich in “The Shaking of the Foundations”


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