Darkness....

At first I somewhat struggled with this reading assignment; I did not struggle with the "reading level" or writing quality, but instead the theories and ideas. There were many ideas that I agreed with but there were also a few ideas that I did not completely agree with. Which in my mind is fine, I believe that we as people of the world do not have to agree on everything because if we did, we would all be robots.. which would be somewhat interesting but extremely BORING.

One of the ideas that I agreed with was that "darkness" is everywhere in life. I couldn't agree more with that statement. Everywhere we look there is darkness, darkness in our homes, in the streets, in the media, it is even in our lives. I also believe darkness can bring out good. It can bring out the good in people who decide to grow from and stand against darkness in a very saddening world.

I also believe that like hinted at in the reading, poetry and darkness are very much tied together. I believe literature in general is tied into darkness. I believe literature can provide an image of a place without darkness that people can find refuge; I also believe it can provide situations of darkness where the audience can relate so that they feel as if they can make it through the dark and pain. Literature and darkness in my mind are almost one in one.

The one idea I was not completely into at first was wrestling with despair with God, but the more I pondered and reflected somewhat agree.

"Darkness"... what a startling word. When I think about that word many images come to mind. Images such as war, gangs, drugs, sin, hell, evil just come to my mind. Like previously stated I believe darkness plagues our world, but we as vessels of Christ should be light to our dark world. We should be able to show love and life of Christ that can hopefully help and brighten people's lives when they are struggling through times of darkness.