The Darkness

 Faith must live with darkness.  People will say, “I have seen the light!”  That can be an initial insight, or outsight as the case may be.  Everything becomes clear, relative to the clueless life previous.  But if this faith is to grow, it must encounter darkness, such as in meditation.  It requires trust as well as showing up to the practice.  The Light previous may have gotten you going, but the darkness is where you will grow from the insides.  Many an agnostic says they don’t know.  This is their interpretation of the dark periods.  They can even meditate and “see nothing.”  So they think there is nothing.  But if they meditate and their life grows more mature, that nothing is the something.