Darkness

We have yet to turn the clocks back. A steady rain is falling. Today's darkness feels like a blanket I can't quite shake off.

I fret about the upcoming election. Our "new normal" feels neither new nor normal. And then I remember I need to befriend the darkness, not avoid it. The gifts of darkness are just harder to see....

"I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light." - Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark