.........light:::darkness
...............understanding:::confusion
.......................community:::isolation

I've been understanding these contrasts a little more deeply lately. I've watched the sun come up for 3 days now. The world is quite peaceful in the wee morning hours, and yet it is some sort of relief when the sun freshly dawns. Understanding is the underlying current of my days and I'm finding it a lovely occupation. Lastly community. One of my favorite words in the English language. I have been richly blessed with community. And when I say rich, I mean the double dark chocolate fudge cake sundae of community. It doesn't get much sweeter than shopping at whole foods, cooking dinner and taking Lucy the dog for a walk. Oh, I didn't mention that I was blessed with a bedroom in my new friend's home equipped with the most comfortable sheets you have ever slept on. Now that's hospitality.

Through the past few days I've been understanding more that my Father loves the light. In fact there is no darkness in Him. Paul shares some good insight in his letter to the church in Colossia.

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:9-14