“Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind,” is Wendell Berry’s prayer in his 1969 poem, Shenandoah. Light dispels darkness but in this world where it is common to “. . . call evil good, and good evil” and “put darkness for light, and light for darkness . . .” (Isaiah 5:20), I sometimes feel like one struggling to carry a candle against the wind. There are forces of darkness actively working to deprive this great nation, the United States of America, of its divinely inspired constitution, and its citizens of their God-given liberty. In the whirlwind of information, truth is often obscured and dark deeds hidden from view. Those who speak out in defense of God and his commandments are vilified. Half-truths and twisted truths are used to mislead multitudes carefully way from the source of light and truth. Alarming. Terrifying.
Yet, always I am drawn back to the source of truth and am made more sure in my commitment to stay on the side of Our Father in Heaven and his son, our Deliverer, Jesus Christ. “Therefore, let your hearts be comforted concerning Zion; for all flesh is in mine hands; be still and know that I am God.” (L.D.S. Doctrine and Covenants 101:16.)
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