How Light Befriends the Dark

During Sacrament today,  I pondered the following thoughts and feelings.  It had been about a month since I had the cleansing presence of the Holy Ghost in my life. Life can move way too fast and I needed a pause button. I know if I don't slow down enough, the Spirit cannot catch me. The Sacrament for me is that, a meeting place to reconnect with God. As I tried to meditate on the words of the sacrament, thoughts of the Savior came to my mind. Remembrance of His perfect example, kindness, pure light entered my mind. How can a Being so perfect, full of so much goodness and light come to such a fallen Earth? How can there be such goodness where there is so much evil ? Like the anxiety that overcame me when my first born was taken outside the hospital for the first time into the real world, all of a sudden I became acutely aware of all the exhaust from every car on the interstate. I became overwhelmed with the elements my innocent, sweet, perfect baby boy was now suddenly exposed to driving down the street. How can such innocence like a new born baby come into such an evil and dangerous world? For what purpose? Don't some pristine and beautiful things seem to good to be true or out of place in a fallen world. How can both coexist?
Today, Christ swallowed up a portion of my disappointment and bitterness. He took up on himself today my limitations and sins. He embraced the dark corners of my soul. Although He is perfect light, it's his perfect love that shines through and redeems all fallen feelings, thoughts, and actions...all fallen Beings.
Darkness is never stronger than light. Please, come to Christ so you can bask in His light. That's why such good things exist alongside with such dark things. The light exists to help along the darkness. The darkness begs for relief and rescue. That's the whole purpose for the Savior's perfect life. He lives to rescue.
Like one of my favorite Christian thinkers wrote (Thomas Merton), "Our helplessness, even our moral misery, our spiritual, attracts to us the mercy of God."
I wish I could hold on to this piece of truth when I'm afraid to come to God in my weaknesses and sins. I wish I could send this bit of perspective to all people who I watch shame push them away from God's perfect grace.
"If we know how great is the love of Jesus for us we will never be afraid to go to Him in all of our poverty, all our weakness, all our spiritual wretchedness and infirmity. Indeed, when we understand the true nature of His love for us, we will prefer to come to Him poor and helpless. We will never be ashamed of our distress. Distresss is to our advantage when we have nothing to seek but mercy. We can be glad of our helplessness when we really believe that Hos power is made perfect in our infirmity. " Thomas Merton