The coming darkness

I did the grandfather thing  this evening as we all went to a carnival.  It was a beautiful day even through the temperature was about 10 degrees below the average temperature for this time of year.  The sun was out and the time had come for it to be going down in the West.  The full moon had already come up and was sitting in the daylight in the East.  

I kept quiet after noticing that and when it was time for us to leave, I looked again.  The sun was just barely over the West horizon and was casting a beautiful hue across the western sky.  After gazing upon that for a second, I turn toward the East where the exit was and saw a sight that I have seen a few times before and it astonishes me each time that I see it.  The full moon was sitting higher in the sky than before and below it was a beautiful belt of a pinkish hue going horizontally across the eastern sky. The hue was separating the daylight from the coming darkness of night.  

I just stood there for a moment and kept my eyes upon the coming darkness.  It was coming toward us as an invading blitzkrieg conquering the land.  It would be just a few minutes until the darkness would overtake us all.  

As I was driving home, I kept monitoring the situation.  By then the darkness was upon us and already past the Moon.  No matter how hard the darkness tried though, it could never blot out the Moon.  The darkness tightened its grip upon our land, but the more that it engulfed us, the brighter the Moon became. 

As I viewed this phenomenon, I started thinking about life.  It reminded me that the darkness that overtakes all of us from time to time and brings sorrow and hardship into our lives also makes the love from others glow that much brighter.  The bleaker our situation, the brighter each good and kind deed stands out, just like the Moon in the darkness of night.