"God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all." 1 john 1:5 "In one stride comes the darkness". Coleridge's Ancient Mariner said. He was talking about the darkness of a sunset, but it speaks just as truly of the darkness of a wounded heart. Our dark thoughts-about who who are, what we've done, the past behind us and the future ahead-come in a 'single stride', from a single problem: our thoughts of God are wrong. And here's the cure... From the series on "The Wounded Heart"