Encouraging Stories --- The First NightThe First Night
Before reading it, think of you will, how frightened Adam was when he
experienced his first sunset--wondering where the light had gone--
would it
ever come back?
The Night Is Not Dark
They tell of Adam:
How frightened he must have been when,
for the very first time, he saw the sun disappear,
ending the light of day.
It was Adam's first darkness.
How could he accept the night, when he had never seen a dawn?
After the splendor of the sun, how dark the darkness
was for him; how desperate the long terror
of the first fall of night . . . until Adam learned that day
would come again, could see that there is light and order
in the universe.
And then Adam began to see how much light remains
in the sky at night: the stars,
and their enduring promise of the sun,
the returning star of day.
Adam learned that the night is never wholly dark,
and that no night is endless.
Even as each of us must learn it,
in our own times of trouble and darkness.
The light is never far.
