Dark Skin

 Christmas is coming which means a lot of focus on Mary, the mother of the baby Jesus.  So what is it about these images here and there of Mary with dark skin?  Is it an ethnic thing?  No.  It refers to the spiritual life.  Dark is not bad.  It is just dark and dark is good. How so?  You go through the dark to get to the light.  The baby Jesus will be born from the dark womb into the light of the stable.  No wonder babies cry.  Many Catholics have the spirituality of going to Jesus through Mary.  In the mystical sense of Mary, you go through the dark night of deep meditation, seemingly nothing there, into the revelation of the light of non-duality.  A Christmas tree looks best when it lights up in the dark.  Got any holy cards with the dark-skinned Mary?