I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. Youth is the loneliest time of all. I think I'll write kids' books.
From my meager understanding, if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, s/he grows old never knowing how to evaluate where s/he is in life; never understanding what joy really is. But it comes then, and it burns all shadows away for a time--just enough time, thank G-d--and the whole world is ablaze with Him and you can find Him anywhere. In those dark moments, it's like you’re riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it’s sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But in that dark night, if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments. And that can be enough.
I just need to know that You understand. I've found above everything that the sheer possibility of Your love burns all the shadows away. But for me to say You turn away is like saying the sun hides itself itself from the blind... G-d, save Your despairing people.
And it is enough. You are enough. Please be enough.