Lent, Darkness, and the God Who Dwells in the Shadows
What if the dark isn’t something to fear but a place where God is waiting for us?
We have been taught to fear the dark.
Whether in fairy tales, cultural metaphors, or even the way we read scripture, light is framed as good, holy, and redemptive, while darkness is something to be banished, defeated, or escaped.
But the Christian mystical tradition, and even scripture itself, tells a different story. …