The Light Shines in Darkness

The Light Shines in Darkness

November is the month the light leaves early.

In some parts of the U.S., we set the clocks back, and suddenly the drive home happens in the dark. The porch light is already on when we pull in. Dinner is made under kitchen lights instead of the sun’s light.

For some of us, that's just a change of routine. For others, the dark seems to settle in deeper. It isn't only outside the window. Some days it feels like it's inside us too. A heaviness from work, from caregiving, from the news, from griefs we haven't had time to name.