"All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a small candle."
-- Reza Deghati Photographer, humanitarian and National Geographic Fellow.
Poetic, isn't it? If anything, darkness encourages the light. We don't usually use candles in rooms with electric lights switched on. They're reserved for quieter, darker, more intimate moments. Nobody goes on a candle-lit lunch date.
I can't help but hum to myself that old Sunday school song, "This Little Light of Mine". That's the spirit Deghati touches on. Nothing can stop the light that shines out of you, whatever that light may be. A light will shine in the darkness, if it's not hidden under a bushel. Well, even then light's probably going to sneak out through the cracks, but the general idea is that light shines strongest unimpeded by things that would block it. It does little good if it's too dim to allow one to see anything.
And for today's depressing thought:
While darkness cannot defeat light, space and time can. Sure we see stars burning billions of miles (or kilometres - whatever!) away, but these are massive orbs of flaming gas - not your commonplace dollar store votives. Even then, there is so much that we cannot see; the vastness of our universe is simply too great.
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one can only wonder what is actually out there that we can't see.... I mean does it ever end out there?
On an interesting side note, do you know what "This Little Light Of Mine" was actually about?
Other than a Civil Rights anthem in the '50s and '60s?
Yea, other than that.
Slaves used to sing it in the fields back in the days of Harriet Tubman and the underground railway. They were telling the other slaves that while they were on the underground railroad to look for houses that had candles burning in the windows because that was a house that supported the liberation of the slaves.
It was really important for people to get the message across to others, which is why the song repeast so much.
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