Editorial October 2, 1995 Issue

The light that brings peace at night

William E. Moody

A Friend recently told me that he had gone through a particularly difficult bout with pain. The night hours had been the most challenging. He said that after he had prayed his way through the worst of it, he had wondered how many others, when struggling with illness or pain or some other personal or emotional problem, may also have felt that their nights were long and hard. He wondered if they may have even dreaded facing the night, as he did for a time.

Yet this friend had also come to know that prayer, trusting in God's great love and all-power, could bring peace and comfort, even dominion, during the night. And he hoped that others could know this as well. He felt it was important to healing.

It does often seem easier to face a challenge when the sun is shining and we can look out on the world around us, free of darkness. But isn't the real challenge we confront mental darkness? A fellow Christian Scientist once reminded me that the night is, in one sense, only a geographical phenomenon. "The sun is always shining somewhere," he said. And, I realized, the light of God is always shining everywhere!

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