Darkness is a cloak that sweeps over our world. It hides both the scary and the comforting, the dangerous and the protecting, the hateful and the loving. Sometimes it is a warm, cozy blanket that shields us from terrors and swaths is in quiet serenity. Sometimes it is a stifling blindfold that makes us vulnerable to the threats that lurk behind its skirts.

Then light steps in and sweeps away the cloak. Often it is bright and glaring, blinding in a different way as it assaults our eyes with shards of glass. But most times light swoops in and reveals the dangers and terrors with victorious clarity. Its truth reveals the insignificance of our crippling fears as well as the vulnerability of our comfortable apathy.