Darkness and Light

Reflections on the meaning of Christmas and the pursuit of truth

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” - John 1:5

The words above are from the first lines of the Gospel of John and they sometimes come into my head, as they did on this Christmas morning.

There is a bright sunlight today where we live, in southern Indiana, and it’s made even brighter by the fresh coat of white snow on the ground. It was so bright at midday that if I’d stepped outside my front door, I would have been blinded by the light for a few moments.

Last night at Christmas Eve Mass, the priest talked in his homily about darkness and light and its meaning in the Gospels.

Many Christmas songs are about the night, and seem to be referring to Jesus being born at night: ‘Oh, Holy Night’ and ‘Silent Night’ and ‘It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.’ There are many others we can think of.

Why the night? How do we know that Jesus was born at night and what is the significance of it?

The only reference in the Gospels to Jesus being born at night is from the Gospel of Luke, where Luke says that after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, an angel of the Lord appeared to the “shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock.”

The night is not just a physical state, however, says the priest, but a spiritual state. It is not just that it is nighttime: It is that the world is living in spiritual darkness.

Jesus is the light that came into the world.

What is light? Light lets us see what was hidden. Light reveals the evil that has been taking place under cover of darkness. Light exposes the truth. Light shows us the way to go.

Why are we surprised by evil that is in our world today when we know from the Bible that Jesus was born into a dark world — a world so dark that the king, Herod, tried to have him killed when he was an infant by ordering the slaughter of all baby boys in Bethlehem who were two years old and younger?

The great work that must take place in the new year must be the shining of a light on all of the evil that has been committed.

All of those who promised Americans that the vaccines were “safe” when in fact there was no evidence to support this should be held accountable. They must be brought before a committee of elected representatives of the people, or brought before a judge in a court of law, and made to answer for this lie.

We must shine a light on them and all of their deeds.

They promised it was safe, they said they knew it was safe, and they knew that this promise was empty, and that the risk of death to healthy young people was real.

Doctors who claimed not to know and to only have followed the CDC’s guidance will not be absolved. Their patients trusted them because of their medical training and board certifications. They trusted them to know that what they were saying was true. It would have been easy for doctors to see by January of 2021 that it was not, as even then VAERS showed an alarming number of reported side effects and deaths occurring within a day or two of vaccination.

What can we all do to shine the light into the darkness?

We can use our voices to speak, to expose evil and to demand change. We can do it online and at events in our communities and states. We can use the phone and call our elected leaders.

We can use our voices in conversations in our communities, to build support for medical freedom.

We can pledge to never again allow the existence of a government so powerful that it thinks it can dictate what is injected into our bodies — or a hospital system so corrupted by money that it imprisons patients and forces treatments on them that they don’t want, causing their deaths.

Maybe we feel weak — feel that we do not have much power while those in power can, in the end, do whatever they like.

But it is not so.

As David Icke said at an anti-lockdown rally in London in 2021, quoting a line from the poem “The Mask of Anarchy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley:

“Ye are many — they are few!”

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2 Corinthians 4:6 - "For God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of [Jesus] Christ.”