September 2010
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gift of absence
i feel that God is teaching me about stillness in this season, about the absence and darkness of God. this absence is not the lack of God’s presence, neither is the darkness a void where light does not exist. rather, God’s absence is His manifest absence, that is, the presence of His absence, and His darkness is His gift to me, a dark light that is meant to train my eyes to see Him...
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even the darkness will not be dark to You
“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.”
— Psalm 139:11-12
when darkness has again come upon me and is so vast that even the light is dark and i am blinded from You, and i believe that because i cannot...