You have probably had the experience of going from a very bright room into a very dark room. Maybe you arrive home late, and after you get ready for bed, you have to tiptoe into a bedroom where someone else is already fast asleep. You find that when you go from the brightness of the hallway into the darkness of the bedroom, you can’t see much. In fact, you are nearly blind.
Why does your sight fail you? Because in the bright room, the pupil of your eye must be very small so it won’t be overwhelmed by light. When you go into the dark bedroom, your pupil needs to adjust—it needs to grow wider to allow more light into it and allow you to see. I’m sure you’ve learned that if you just wait for a few moments and allow your eyes to adjust, you’ll find that you can soon see a whole lot more. It just takes some patience and some adjustment to your new circumstances.
And I think this serves as a helpful illustration of what happens in our lives when we suddenly go from times of joy to times of sorrow. All has been well. Our
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