Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Mr. William Earnest Henley wrote the words


"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul."

Taken from his poem "Invictus", Mr. Henley reminds us that no matter how desperate and impossible a situation my appear, if you look deep within yourself, God has given you everything you need to overcome that obstacle.

All you need have is FAITH.

Which leads me into my topic for today.....Are you afraid of the dark?

I sat in my apartment this weekend, and watched as the sun slowly disappeared beneath the tree line in front of my building. 

With all of the lights off at the time, the sun light was more than enough to brighten the entire room. Around 7:45ish, the sun was almost gone but I could still see everything in my living room, clear as day.

By 8:00, there was no sun, no light,.....nothing, but I could still see everything in my living room. 

I felt safe, secure, and comforted by the darkness. I used to not feel that way.

I started to reminisce about the days when I was a kid, and how I was so afraid of the dark.

The shadows in the room looked like gigantic monsters about to devour me at any second.

 Every noise sounded like the devil was coming to get me for stealing that ButterFingers from Kroger, and I didn't know if that hand on my ankle was my brother fucking tatering with me again, or the Real Boogie Man this time. Either way, I was probably about to piss my pants.

Mom told me that there was no Boogie Man, there were no monsters, and she had already beat the shit out of me for taking that ButterFingers from Kroger, so I had nothing else to fear in the dark.

I trusted mom, ....So why was I still afraid of the dark?

It took me years to realize that only thing that separated people who were afraid of the dark, from people who weren't was FAITH.

When you have faith, you know that nothing is going to happen to you because you are protected. Weather it's God, or your mother, you know that they aren't going to let anything happen to you. Otherwise, they would never have put you in the dark.

So back to the present day........back to my dark living room.

I finally saw things sooooo clear. I realized that there is no "darkness", there is only a dimmer bright.....

Darkness = without light

Technically, there is no such thing as without light. Everything has light, some things just need super technology to see it.

When you let your eyes slowly get adjusted to dimming light, you can see everything. It is only when someone turns the lights off without warning that you can't see without them.

So if you are in a dark place right now, just close your eyes for 30 seconds and let them get adjusted to the blackness, and when you re-open them, you will finally see as clear as day.

As for me,....I no longer fear the darkness,.....I embrace it.

The darkness fears me, for the darkness can not destroy me. All I need do, to destroy the darkness, is to flip the light switch to "on".

GTP- 2's