Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
Everything becomes more and more itself. Here is joy that cannot be shaken. Our light can swallow up your darkness; but your darkness cannot now infect our light. No, no, no. Come to us. We will not go to you. Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs? Did you not know they were stronger than their opposites?
From The Great Divorce
Compiled in Words to Live By
Compiled in Words to Live By
The Great Divorce. Copyright © 1946, C. S Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed 1973 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
It is impossible for darkness to overcome or infect light because darkness is the absence of light. It can not exist where there is light. In fact, darkness does not “exist” at all, except as the lack of something; light.
Now joy, smiles, love and all that “exists'” in our light will also never be overcome except in their absence. So, brothers and sisters, express the light that exists in you; and thereby conquer, banish, dispel and dispense that darkness in this world that can only fill the void of light left unexpressed or un-demonstrated by us, here below..
When you do “let your light shine” it will illuminate the Garden called Eden that God created us to inhabit, and therein we will experience the true reality revealed by that light, “on earth as it is in Heaven”.
Shine on, you crazy diamond,
Stan
Good Morning Garden 
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