The world is God’s classroom, offering all of us important lessons. We visually cycle through light and dark every 24 hours. Similarly, our spiritual and emotional lives also cycle, bringing us happiness and light in one moment or despair and darkness in another. When the sun sets, a beautiful bright vista blesses before the deep darkness of night engulfs. Likewise, God puts in place His sustaining light and brightness before the dark pulls of the world are permitted to surround us. May we be wise in recognizing the blessings God has pre-planned for our darkest hours. And may we always trust that those darkest hours will give way again to light, hope and brightness as the morning light returns.