I haven’t shared in a while, but this has been on my heart.
The past few years have held more loss and uncertainty than I ever imagined—losing my dad, then my mom, my mother-in-law, friends, and watching those I love walk through deep pain and health struggles. It’s been heavy. My faith has been stretched in ways I wasn’t prepared for, and if I’m honest, I didn’t always handle it with grace. There were moments I felt deeply alone.
If you’ve felt that way too, you’re not alone. I wasn’t always “praising in the storm”—sometimes I sounded more like David: “How long, Lord?”
But in the middle of that darkness, God kept bringing one verse to my heart:
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” — John 1:5
And when I finally understood why He placed that verse there—it floored me.
The Light is there. And the darkness cannot extinguish it. Not in me. Not in you. Not ever.
The enemy wants us to believe otherwise—that the darkness will last, that we’re too far gone, that he can somehow put out the Light. But those are lies. He wants us to feel cut off, alone, and without hope—but we’re not.
Even when life feels like winter—when everything looks gone, and you feel buried—God is still at work. Like perennials, what’s beneath the surface is still alive. There are roots, strength, and life stored up, even when you can’t see it or feel it. And in time, you will grow again.
So if you’re in a dark season right now, hold on to this truth:
The Light is still with you. It’s still in you. And it will not go out.