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When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on him? when you called on him, was he somewhere up there, or was he as near as your very breath?
-Jan Karon
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When The Trees And The Power Lines

Jan Karon
When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on him? when you called on him, was he somewhere up there, or was he as near as your very breath?
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Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. darkness is in reality the absence of light. light we can study, but not darkness. in fact we can use newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. you cannot measure darkness. a simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. how can you know how dark a certain space is? you measure the amount of light present. isn't this correct? darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.
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Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. it is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. a column and a column brings light between them. to make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.
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In the dark that followed - lucy said; "where i was born, the trees were always in the sun. and i left that place because it was intolerant of rain. now, we are here in a place where there are no trees and there is only rain. and i intend to leave this place - because it is intolerant of light. somewhere - there must be somewhere where darkness and light are reconciled. so i am starting a rumour, here and now, of yet another world. i don't know when it will present itself - i don't know where it will be. but - as with all those other worlds now past when it is ready, i intend to go there.
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And i saw darkness for weeks. it never dawned on me that i could come out of it, but you heal. nature heals you, and you do come out of it. all of a sudden i saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden i saw another crack of light. then i saw forms in the light. and i recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.
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