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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