Darkness

Darkness is not a thing - it is an absence of a thing.

Yet during those darkest moments, in the blackest hour it seems as if it is all that there this
    tangible
       present
          overwhelming
              screaming, bleak oblivion, suffocating, crushing and inescapable.

But blackness is not a (final) state - is it like a waiting room, anticipatory, expectant 

     The presence of light, dimmed, filtered or shadowed brings an outline recognition of reality.

     The presence of light, diminished, reduced or lessened brings an understanding, a revelation.

Jesus said he was to be 'lifted up' - the bleakest, blackest of deaths.
Jesus was to depart hidden in the shadows between life and death.

The light would soon go out, diminished first by hatred and scourging and the shadow of the cross and (finally) in the bleakest blackness of a tomb.

And in utter darkness it might be remembered that darkness is not a thing other that it is a thing waiting to be pin-pricked, vanquished and shown up for what it truly is (or isn't).

Darkness is not a thing





John 12:20-36