Dear Michaels: Someone once said it is better to run away today to fight another day. I think it might have been the same person who said it is better to live on the corner of a roof or in the desert than to live with a contentious woman. Someone so utterly blind in their arguments that they pain you to be near them, like Helen Keller who in childhood just did not understand the nature of her darkness. Now there are those who like Christ see with the eyes of compassion. Placing one foot in front of the other, taunted on every side, dirty, dusty and salty sweat and blood stinging eyes and open wounds, the weight of their burdens crushing down upon them, struggling with thirst and exhaustion, the darkness finally overtaking them at the time of their last breath. And then there was Stephen, who when the argument of darkness closed around him, the heavens were opened above him and he glowed the most brightly as he gave up his last breath. So let your light shine before men and do not be afraid of the darkness.

When we live in the darkness of superstition, we have no where to run. Can we run to the desert? That is where God came from. Can we hide in the corner of a roof?

Michael, your dream indicates that you may be at a point of great tempting. Your flight from darkness being dependent upon refilling your tank. I suggest a lesson from the old testament prophet who hid out in the house of a woman that complained to him that she did not have enough oil with him living there. He was running from the darkness yet he knew that the oil would not run out while he remained there. Yet he felt so all alone that God had to rebuke him and tell him that there were five thousand others like him who had not bended knee to superstition.

Are you being called to flee or are you being called to put on the mantle of righteousness and give of your last breath in a compassionate battle with darkness? Are you going to fuel the cause of superstition or are you going to stand your ground firmly and let your light shine through the darkness.