Fencing in the Dark

Often we go through life fighting in the dark: we flail our arms at whatever is coming, but yet we don't know what, so we flail.  But isn't that life?  Isn't life supposed to be a mystery everyday, a fight constantly ever battling the ills of life?
     Yes life is a battle and a mystery, but you don't have to fight unawares.  We may not know what to expect everyday, but we can always prepare so that when the trials come we may clearly see the opposition in our way.  And we will no longer flail but strike accurately conquering whatever may be in our path.  This light is the Gospel of Jesus Christ, provided us by the scriptures and the prophets.

    “…I should like to consider a kind of light that has infinitely greater power and effect. I speak of spiritual light. It comes from God and his gospel. In the scriptures, we find reference to a relationship between the physical light of the sun and spiritual light. We read in the Doctrine and Covenants, section 88, of ‘the light of truth;

‘Which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made. …

‘And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your understandings;

‘Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space—

‘The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed.” (D&C 88:6–7,11–13.) (Elder Ted E. Brewerton, Light.  Engsign Nov. 1991.)