GodReflection: Talking with God.
With each day’s dawn, the light begins to dominate the night’s shadows, and once again my task is to talk and walk with The Light throughout the darkness of my day. For now, I reside in two kingdoms.
One is the Kingdom of Darkness sent my way by Satan, and the other is the Kingdom of Light established by The Holy to which I desire to be loyal. In more thoughtful moments the characteristics of each kingdom are obvious.
Satan’s dark kingdom abounds in greed, lies, accumulation, war, consumption, and selfishness. The list expands easily with other evil tags we see flapping in the breeze to attract us. Eventually, we see those flags fail to deliver. Contrary to the news on the street, this kingdom continues to decrease in dominance.
In bright contrast, the Kingdom of Light overflows to flood the world with abundance, goodness, love, beauty, perfection, truth, peace, mercy, kindness, and care. Likewise, you can expand the list with visual pictures of mountains, spectacular 
landscapes, perfect weather days, beautiful beaches, and brilliant star-studded skies. What fun we could all have to sit down and make our endless lists of good that lies within the realm of this kingdom. The Kingdom of Light is the one God declared to be supremely good when he saw everything he had made. This kingdom increases in size and abundance with each new day.
One more observation. Both kingdoms are subject to God. They are both dominated by his active presence as he lives and works daily in our lives to conduct us, his children, safely through our daily present. Only Holy God can navigate us through the two kingdoms in his care.
Only he can steer us away from darkness and into the light. Only God can chart our arrival intact to our destination under his rule on his clean eternal earth where the kingdom of the dark night will be gone forever. And—his careful navigation is only available through our consistent conversation with him. Essential to our safe arrival is the visit along the way. We talk and we listen.
A word of caution to self. I must be careful to not spend my life in talk ABOUT God.
My end goal can never be to learn ABOUT God or to read ABOUT the contents of my Bible just to gain knowledge. We find God in companionship. Theresa, a God-follower who lived in northwest France during the nineteenth century once remarked, “Talking to God is always better than talking about God.”
Reinhold Niebuhr, a disciple of Father, Son, and Spirit penned in the early portion of the twentieth century, the following prayer that continues to catch the eye and ear of 
the church today.
It is a prayer each one of us can pray in our talks with God along our walk in the Kingdom of Light to help us learn how to steer away from the Kingdom of Darkness.
God, grant me the serenity (peace of mind) to accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen.
Stay tuned.
Dr. Gary J. Sorrells
A GodReflection, Talking with God In Light and Darkness.
God Reflection 
Thanks, dear Gary
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