By Toby Klingsmith

I often wonder why we are so afraid of the dark. It has no substance, no power, and is in nearly every conceivable measure non-existent. It is a lack—physically, a lack of light, and spiritually, a lack of knowledge.

The cliché stands true: we fear what we do not understand. We fear what we cannot control. “Where am I going to go to school?” “Where am I going to live in two months?” “When will God heal my mother?” Because such spiritual darknesses frighten us, we begin to villainize them. But when we attempt to fight them, we are fighting nothing…