Tonight Tyler asked, in his very inquisitive way, "Mom, wouldn't it be crazy if it were always nighttime?" This of course launched us into a discussion of Alaska and the almost constant daytime they experience during the summer. Tyler thought about that for a minute, then said, "I wish it were never dark here. That would be cool." "Not me", I said, "If it weren't for the dark, we would never see the stars."
After Tyler went to bed, I got thinking about that little discussion. And how often during my life I have found myself enjoying the sunshine and the happy times of life- wishing, like Tyler, that it might never get dark. But sure enough, those dark moments come- when life feels so hard. But in retrospect, it was during those dark times that I most clearly saw the guiding lights in my own life. So maybe it is a good thing that we experience those hard times, because "if it weren't for the dark, we would never see the stars."
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