Light’s uninterrupted shining

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column March 28, 2025.

It’s a basic fact of our lives—the Earth rotates, and we’re given a day and a night. Light and darkness appear in other ways too: happy moments and sad times, good and bad qualities, triumphs and failures.

But is darkness an inevitable counterpoint to light?

Here’s a different perspective from the Bible, and it’s part of the Bible Lesson from the “Christian Science Quarterly” on the topic of “Unreality” (for March 31–April 6): “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).

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