Lightness vs. Darkness | Humility | Shadow

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:5).

In a fantasy story called “A Wizard of Earthsea,” a young man named “Ged” is learning to become a wizard. His training program is aimed at helping him to distinguish between darkness and light, between good and evil, but knowing also their coexistence in this world. The training includes a long pilgrimage – a journey of learning and purification in which Ged is haunted by a dark shadow following him. The shadow hunts him and haunts him relentlessly. Finally, it is revealed to him that he will lose his soul if he does not become a hunter himself. So he sets out to hunt down his shadow – to destroy it, just as it would have destroyed him . . .

One day, in a boat in which he has followed the shadow out to sea, he finally confronts his quarry. It comes toward him in silence until man and…

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