caption: The Light Is Stronger Than the Dark
exif: {"Image DocumentName": "The Light Is Stronger Than the Dark", "Image ImageDescription": "Some years ago on a trip to Dallas, Texas, I took in an evening basketball game with friends. When we emerged from the arena, we found the area socked in with a dense, almost suffocating kind of fog. The Light Is Stronger Than the Dark. Some years ago on a trip to Dallas, Texas, I took in an evening basketball game with friends. When we emerged from the arena, we found the area socked in with a dense, almost suffocating kind of fog. With little choice but to try to find our way home, we joined the hundreds of other cars inching their way down the freeway. The fog was so thick and heavy that we couldn t see the ornament on the front of the hood, let alone the lines on the side of the road. It felt as though we were driving straight into a clam-chowder-like abyss. It was unnerving and tedious\u2014enough so that my friends young son began to get restless and climb from seat to seat. But then without warning something through the front windshield caught his attention, and he quieted down. Pointing toward the two thin streams of light coming from the headlights, which were cutting narrow channels in the dense fog before dissipating into the dark of night, he said to his father, Look, Dad, the light is pushing away the dark. How does it do that, Dad Before his father could respond, the boy interrupted: Oh, I know. The light is stronger than the dark, isn t it, Dad That was nearly two decades ago. But I can still picture looking at this boy s mother, who had also been struck by her son s comment, and then sitting back to ponder the significance of the truth he had unwittingly articulated. The light is stronger than the dark, it is an image and theme used throughout movies and literature - why is that it goes all the way back to Christ and Jesus Christ is the Ultimate Light. The power of Jesus Christ is stronger than anything we can expect to face in this world, including the power of Satan. The Savior s light is greater than any heartache or loneliness, more powerful than any kind of pain, stronger than any weakness or temptation. A ten-year-old girl caught the essence of this. After watching a science fiction series on television, she said in the family prayer, Please bless the earth that it will be protected by a force field. In essence, that is what the Lord has pledged\u2014that if we come unto Him, have faith in Him, and seek after Him, He will push the darkness of mortality away from us with His power. If your eye be single to my glory, He said, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things (D&C 88:67). How crucial it is for each of us to understand the source and power of the Ultimate Light, the Light that can push away the various kinds of darkness of mortality, the Light that will illuminate the path that leads back Home. Sheri L. Dew, No Doubt About It Choose the Light!!!!", "Image XResolution": "200", "Image YResolution": "200", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}