Night Shift

Here, in the dark, everything counts. Nothing gets overlooked. It’s okay if you feel a bit disoriented at times, I promise you’re not the only one who is scared of the dark. Please, tell me I’m not the only one who is scared of the dark. But in time we can learn to inhabit it. We will learn to go about our daily work and soon enough it will not feel like we’re trespassing. Soon enough, we’ll learn that we are not alone. Christ himself has come down into our darkness and has promised to never leave us. The Spirit, that great fire of God, dwells within us as a pilot light of grace. We long for the days when the flame burns bright. We endure the days when it flickers.

And we trust that there is no darkness that Christ himself has not known. He has entered into its deepest corners and has found even there, even in the outermost darkness, nothing that can overcome his love. This, then, is the mystery of our faith. We live in the night. But Christ does too. Christ does too. 

If you stand at dusk with your eyes wide open

you can see the shadows turn black.

This happens slowly but you will miss it

if you think all darkness is the same.

In time you start tracing the shape of its shade

and look, look, the whole world is here.

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From a sermon on Psalm 134.