Devotion for April 19, 2008

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
                                                                           John 1:5

The mysterious, poetic beauty of the first chapter of the Gospel of John has always moved me. Years ago a friend gave me a book of meditations—Seasons of a Lifetime by Gerhard E. Frost.  One of the meditations has stuck with me—giving even deeper meaning to John 1:5.

If I am asked
what are the grounds for hope,
this is my answer:
Light is lord over darkness,
truth is lord over falsehood,
life is ever lord over death.
Of all the facts I daily live with,
there’s none more comforting
than this:  If I have two rooms,
one dark, the other light,
and I open the door between them,
the dark room becomes lighter
without the light one
becoming darker.  I know
this is no headline,
but it’s a marvelous footnote;
and God comforts me in that.

Helen Andrew
PRN Steering Committee