When Darkness Becomes Normal
Our eyes automatically adjust to light and dark. Let’s pay attention when we adjust to the darkness too easily.
Hi, Friends,
I recently rediscovered this quote from Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf that I had saved last year. I love it when profound thoughts find me—even when I’m reading a detective novel!
In this quote, Detective Armand Gamache is letting his eyes physically adjust to a dark space, but this adjustment speaks to how we adjust to other darkness, too. As Christians, we are people of the Light, but let’s not forget how easily we can let the Light dim, shadows to move, and darkness to overcome us when we’re not paying attention.
This week, notice how your eyes adjust to light and darkness as you move from day to night and to day again.
🧡 - Sarah Jo
Quote
A few thoughts from Detective Armand Gamache from Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf.
“Instead of turning on his phone flashlight, he allowed his eyes to adjust. It was, he thought, a sort of metaphor. How easily humans could adjust to darkness. To dark thoughts and darker deeds. Until, finally, the darkness became normal. And they no longer missed, or looked for, or trusted, the light. It was a survival instinct, but not always one of the more laudable. Even this place was not immune.”
– Louise Penny, The Grey Wolf,
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