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The Light of the Lord in Lockdown

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While the sun has been shining brightly in most parts of the UK over the past few weeks, for many people the isolation of lockdown is proving to be a very dark experience. Perhaps it is emotionally dark because you are grieving a bereaved love one at a distance from family and there was no opportunity to say goodbye. Perhaps it is psychologically dark because the isolation is exasperating your depression or some other mental health problem. Some are facing the terrifying darkness of being locked down with an abuser who they cannot escape (if so please seek help - see the note at the bottom of the page). For others, having too much time to think allows a bad conscience, regrets about the past, and fears about the future to magnify at a time when it is not just your friends and your pastor who are at a distance - God seems out of reach too. For you it is a spiritually dark place. Suffering in any way is a dark experience which, in a biblical worldview, can always be trace