Quote for the Week: To Know the Dark

Early in my widowhood I came upon a poem by Wendell Berry called To Know the Dark.  It touched me deeply and I embraced the third line and repeated it to myself many times.  It reminds me that there is beauty even in our dark times, joy even in our pain.  

To go into the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark, go without sight
And find that dark, too, blooms and sings
And is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.