Editorial December 5, 1983 Issue

Living as "children of light"

CAROLYN B. SWAN

Darkness is defined as "the absence in part or in whole of light" and also as "absence of moral, religious, or cultural values: spiritual backwardness." It is synonymous with gloom, ignorance, wickedness, iniquity, blindness, secrecy, obscurity, and trouble.

Man is not the outcome of darkness. He is created to dwell in the eternal light of Life, as God's spiritual likeness. The Bible declares, "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." ^{I John 1:5.}

On the basis of these spiritual facts, a grandmother, a Christian Science practitioner, prayed for her granddaughter who awoke in pain one night. The little girl had become ill before in the same way. But now, soon afterward, she was asleep. And the next morning, in answer to her grandmother's call, a bouncy little voice rejoiced, "It's all gone now!" Then the child gloomily amended, "But it comes back at night."

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