When darkness affects everything, we think, speak and do, it’s advisable to face it and not avoid it.

Today’s meditation from the CAC’s founder, Richard Rohr, helps us learn from, rather than shirk from, darkness.

A few highlights are offered below as breadcrumbs to entice you to read the full blog here: https://cac.org/daily-meditations/two-sides-of-darkness/

Two Sides of Darkness

• Experiences of darkness are good and necessary teachers. They are not to be avoided, denied, run from, or explained away.

• There’s a darkness where we are led by our own stupidity, our own sin (the illusion of separation), our own selfishness, by living out of the false or separate self. We have to work our way back out of this kind of darkness with brutal honesty, confession, surrender, forgiveness, apology, and restitution. It may feel simultaneously like dying and being liberated.  

• But there’s another darkness that we’re led into by God, grace, and the nature of life itself. … This is where transformation happens. 

• Periods of seemingly fruitless darkness may in fact highlight all the ways we rob ourselves of wisdom by clinging to the light. Who grows by only looking on the bright side of things?

https://cac.org/daily-meditations/two-sides-of-darkness/