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2005-07-01 - 12:43 p.m.

There was a time in history when man knew darkness. I do not mean the darkness of the soul although that is a thread of our history but true darkness. There was a time when the setting sun brought the dark. Sometimes it was diminished by the stars or the moon but on stormy nights the black was deep and cold. I wonder how it felt to be enclosed, enveloped, swathed in a blanket of dark. It must have been terrifying to be out in the countryside between here and there exposed to anything lying beyond the small ring of light that your torch or lantern provided. What beast roamed at the edges of your halo of light awaiting your distraction in order to consume you? What terrors lived beyond the safety of the light in your minds eye? So strong is the memory of that time in man that we still fear the dark. Although we no longer experience it here in the country of interstates and gluttonous electrical consumption (except in the most inhospitable places) it still exist in the world. There are still places where darkness reigns. Think how frightening it must have been for the Iraqi people to be plunged into darkness. Not only darkness but darkness filled with stealthy hunters looking for a beast but often trampling the smaller creatures inadvertently. And what of the hunters born in a land of light and left here alone in the dark with instructions to protect their brothers from the demons of the night. How are they to know the predators from the prey? How can we who sit cloaked in a warm robe of light know or judge any of the ones trapped in darkness. How can anyone be expected to see in the dark?

I wish you Peace

~alison~


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