GOD WORKS IN THE DARK
Rich Villodas
When I think of the difficulty of waiting, the great poet Langston Hughes comes to mind. In his famous poem“ Tired,” he wrote,
I am so tired of waiting, Aren ' t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two— And see what worms are eating At the rind.
Yes, Langston, I’ m tired too.
Advent shouts out,“ God is coming!” but sometimes it’ s hard to see that when we’ re surrounded by darkness. We are all waiting for something. And sometimes it feels like we’ re waiting in the dark.
That is where Advent begins. Every year, we come to this season and are reminded that darkness is a reality and that we need God to break through with his light. Darkness, for most of us, is not a good thing, but we have hope, because God works in the dark. In fact, some of the greatest moments in the Bible happened in dark places:
I’ m tired of the wars. I’ m tired of the division. I’ m tired of the injustices. I’ m tired of the violence.
• When God called Jonah, the man ran the other way. His disobedience pulled him into the darkness of a fish’ s belly. And in that darkness, God revealed himself to
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