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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

The luminous darkness.

“In an appendix to a term paper, one of my students included the following in his description of his experience as a deep-sea diver:

“Enroute to the floor of the ocean the diver first passes through the ‘belt of fishes.’  This is a wide band of light reflected from the surface of the sea. 

From this area he moves to a depth of water that cannot be penetrated by light above the surface.  It is dark, forboding, and eerie. 

The diver’s immediate reaction is apt to be one of fear and sometimes a sudden spasm of panic that soon passes. 

As he drops deeper and deeper into the abyss, slowly his eyes begin to pick up the luminous quality of the darkness; what was fear is relaxed and he moves into the lower region with confidence and peculiar vision.”

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me
Even the night shall be light about me…”

The darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.  Psalm 139:11-12” 

Howard Thurman, The Luminous Darkness

 
…dive deep.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW to the luminous darkness.