Robert T. Young - "Where Do You Go When It Gets Dark?" (April 9, 1978)

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Narrator	Duke University Chapel, Service of Worship.	0:04
	April 9th, 1978.	0:06
	(calm organ music)	0:11
	(cheerful organ music)	2:26
	(cheerful organ music)	5:40
	(cheerful organ music)	8:33
	(person coughs)	13:06
	(choir and congregation sing a hymn)	13:10
	(organ plays "I'll praise my Maker while I've breath")	14:36
	♪I'll praise my Maker while I've breath; ♪	15:13
	♪ and when my voice is lost in death, ♪	15:19
	♪ praise shall employ my nobler powers. ♪	15:25
	♪ My days of praise shall ne'er be past, ♪	15:33
	♪ while life, and thought, and being last, ♪	15:39
	♪ or immortality endures. ♪	15:45
	♪ Happy are they whose hopes rely ♪	15:54
	♪ on Israel's God, who made the sky ♪	16:01
	♪ and earth and seas, with all their train; ♪	16:07
	♪ whose truth for ever stands secure, ♪	16:14
	♪ who saves th'oppressed and feeds the poor, ♪	16:20
	♪ for none shall find God's promise vain. ♪	16:26
	♪ The Lord pours eyesight on the blind; ♪	16:35
	♪ the Lord supports the fainting mind ♪	16:41
	♪ and sends the laboring conscience peace. ♪	16:47
	♪ He helps the stranger in distress, ♪	16:55
	♪ the widow and the fatherless, ♪	17:01
	♪ and grants the prisoner sweet release. ♪	17:07
	♪ I'll praise my God who lends me breath; ♪	17:17
	♪ and when my voice is lost in death, ♪	17:23
	♪ praise shall employ my nobler powers. ♪	17:29
	♪ My days of praise shall ne'er be past, ♪	17:36
	♪ while life, and thought, and being last, ♪	17:42
	♪ or immortality endures. ♪	17:49
	♪ Amen ♪	17:59
Man	As we come into the temple of the Lord,	18:20
	worried over many little things, anxious,	18:25
	weary, distracted,	18:29
	let us first acknowledge before the Lord,	18:33
	our frailties and our sins.	18:39
	Let us pray.	18:44
	Oh God,	18:48
	we detest all the sins of our lives.	18:49
	We are sorry for having offended you,	18:53
	who are all good and resolve, with the help of your grace,	18:56
	never to sin again.	19:02
	Hear us as we make our confession.	19:04
	For my lack of hope, for my lack of faith,	19:10
	for my failure to care, Lord, have mercy.	19:15
	For letting ourselves be paralyzed with fear	19:20
	for our divisions, for our jealousies,	19:25
	Christ, have mercy.	19:29
	For our hatred, for our not being peacemakers,	19:32
	for our lies, Lord, have mercy on our souls.	19:38
	Let us each, now, hold in though, before God,	19:46
	who sees and knows in secret, those things	19:53
	which alone, we would wish Him to know	19:57
	and forgive.	20:02
	Bless the Lord, oh my soul,	20:23
	and forget not all his benefits.	20:26
	And forgiveth all thine inequities,	20:29
	who redeemeth thy life from destruction,	20:32
	who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.	20:36
	Bless the Lord, all thee his works,	20:41
	in all places of his dominion,	20:44
	bless the Lord, oh my soul.	20:48
	Let us give thanks, for God is good	20:54
	and God's love is everlasting.	20:58
-	[Reverend Accompanied By Congregation] Thanks be to God	21:02
	who forgives us.	21:04
	Thanks be to God, whose tender mercy heals us.	21:06
	Thanks be to God, whose abundant grace sustains us.	21:11
	Amen.	21:17
Reverend	Let us pray.	21:28
	Almighty God, wipe from our hearts and minds	21:30
	all anxieties and cares	21:36
	so that we might listen	21:41
	to thy holy word.	21:44
	Amen.	21:47
	The Old Testament lesson comes from Genesis,	21:49
	the 32nd chapter,	21:54
	verses 22 through 31.	21:57
	"The same night, he arose and took his two wives,	22:03
	"his two maids, and his 11 children,	22:07
	"and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.	22:11
	"He took them and sent them across the stream	22:15
	"and, likewise, everything that he had.	22:19
	"And Jacob was left alone,	22:24
	"and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.	22:27
	"When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob,	22:33
	"he touched the hollow of his thigh,	22:36
	"and Jacob's thigh was put out of joint	22:41
	"as he wrestled with him.	22:44
	"Then he said, 'Let me go, for the day is breaking.'	22:48
	"But Jacob said, 'I will not let you go	22:54
	"'unless you bless me.'	22:59
	"And he said to him, 'What is your name?'	23:02
	"And he said, 'Jacob.'	23:05
	"Then he said, 'Your name shall no more be called Jacob,	23:07
	"'but Israel, for you have striven with God	23:13
	"'and with men and have prevailed.'	23:17
	"Then Jacob asked him, 'Tell me, I pray, your name.'	23:22
	"But he said, 'Why is it that you ask my name?'	23:27
	"And there he blessed him.	23:33
	"So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying,	23:36
	"'For I have seen God face to face and yet	23:41
	"'my life is preserved.'	23:46
	"The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel,	23:50
	"limping because of his thigh."	23:53
	(organ plays a hymn)	24:00
	(choir sings a hymn)	24:19
	(organ plays quietly)	28:51
	(people cough)	28:55
	Let the congregation rise for the reading of the gospel.	29:00
	(clears throat)	29:10
	Saint John chapter 3, verses 1 through 8.	29:14
	"Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus,	29:20
	"a ruler of the Jews.	29:26
	"This man came to Jesus by night and said to him,	29:29
	"'Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God	29:33
	"'for no one can do these signs that you do	29:38
	"'unless God is with him.'	29:42
	"Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you,	29:46
	"'unless one is born anew,	29:50
	"'he cannot see the kingdom of God.'	29:52
	"Nicodemus said to him,	29:56
	"'How can a man be born when he is old?	29:58
	"'Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb	30:03
	"'and be born?'	30:08
	"Jesus answered, 'Truly, truly, I say to you	30:10
	"'unless one is born of water and the spirit,	30:15
	"'he cannot enter the kingdom of God.	30:18
	"'That which is born of the flesh is flesh	30:22
	"'and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.	30:26
	"'Do not marvel that I said to you you must be born anew.	30:31
	"'The wind blows where it wills	30:37
	"'and you hear the sound of it	30:39
	"'but you do not know whence it comes	30:41
	"'or whether it goes.	30:45
	"'So it is with everyone who is born of the spirit.'"	30:48
	From Saint Luke, the 22nd chapter,	30:57
	verses 39 through 46.	31:01
	"And Jesus came out and went	31:07
	"as was his custom to the Mount of Olives	31:10
	"and the disciples followed him.	31:14
	"And when he came to the place, he said to them,	31:17
	"'Pray that you may not enter into temptation.'	31:21
	"And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw	31:25
	"and knelt down and prayed,	31:29
	"'Father,	31:33
	"'if thou art willing, remove this cup from me.	31:36
	"'Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done.'	31:41
	"And there appeared to him an angel from heaven,	31:47
	"strengthening him.	31:50
	"And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly	31:53
	"and his sweat became like great drops of blood	31:59
	"falling down upon the ground.	32:03
	"And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples	32:07
	"and found them sleeping for sorrow.	32:11
	"And he said to them,	32:15
	"'Why do you sleep?	32:18
	"'Rise and pray that you may not	32:21
	"'enter into temptation.'"	32:26
	May the Lord add his blessing to the reading of	32:30
	His holy word, amen.	32:34
	(cheerful organ music)	32:37
	(choir sings "Glory to our Great Redeemer")	32:47
	♪Amen ♪	33:23
	♪Amen ♪	33:26
Reverend	You will notice in the bulletin this morning	33:45
	a special word about Ben Smith.	33:47
	Sunday after Sunday, week in and week out,	33:54
	all of us are thrilled and inspired by the music	33:59
	from the chapel choir.	34:05
	It is under the direction of Ben Smith	34:09
	that the choir presents to the glory of God	34:12
	and for the inspiration and enrichment of us all	34:16
	this great music.	34:21
	Ben is nearing the end of his 10th year here at Duke.	34:25
	Members of the choir and chorale have honored him	34:30
	with a reception on the opening night of mass, recently,	34:33
	and with the presentation of a gift.	34:37
	Last evening, several of his friends gathered	34:40
	to have dinner with him and recognize his contributions.	34:43
	Today, following the service, I have asked Ben	34:48
	to stand with the presiding minister and with me	34:50
	at the entrance to the chapel	34:53
	so that those of you who are here and those of you	34:55
	who worship here regularly,	34:58
	who probably wonder where he goes Sunday morning	35:00
	immediately after the service,	35:03
	will find him waiting at the door if you would like to speak	35:05
	with him and share a word of greeting and express your	35:09
	thanks to him.	35:12
	For all of us who do worship here, though, Ben, let me say,	35:14
	that we are deeply grateful for your commitment to God	35:18
	and for the talent which you share with all of us	35:21
	as you lead the choir and move us all.	35:24
	Thank you.	35:27
	In a recent mailing from Duke Power Company,	35:33
	along with the monthly billing,	35:38
	there was a two page leaflet that had the words,	35:42
	"What should I do if the lights go out?"	35:47
	That wasn't the first time I had thought	35:54
	of that question.	35:55
	For last summer, my family and I were on vacation	35:57
	in Oklahoma and were watching television	36:00
	and suddenly the lights in all of	36:03
	New York City went out.	36:05
	And it occurred to me then,	36:10
	and has occurred to me a number of times since:	36:12
	What do you do when the lights go out	36:14
	and when it gets dark?	36:19
	Or where do you go when it gets dark?	36:23
	And then I read and reread some passages	36:29
	in both the old testament and the new testament	36:31
	where others faced "dark" experiences.	36:34
	And I began to see and read and understand	36:40
	what some others before us have done	36:43
	when it became dark for them.	36:47
	And just recently, in preparing to lead	36:51
	a spiritual life retreat in South Georgia,	36:53
	based upon Henri Nouwen's book "Reaching Out".	36:56
	In the first part of this book he deals with	37:00
	moving from loneliness to solitude	37:02
	and the question came back to me again,	37:06
	where do you go?	37:08
	Where do we go when it gets dark?	37:10
	Now I don't know how it is with you	37:16
	but I am afraid of the dark.	37:18
	I was as a little child, as I grew up,	37:24
	and am even now.	37:29
	There are four things in this world	37:32
	that really do frighten me.	37:34
	Snakes,	37:37
	dogs,	37:39
	lightening,	37:42
	and dark.	37:44
	As a matter of fact, one of the most serious	37:46
	confrontations I ever had with my parents	37:48
	came when I was about seven or eight years old.	37:50
	And they wanted me to go next door,	37:54
	which happened to be oh, three or four hundred yards away,	37:56
	on an errand.	38:01
	And it was dark.	38:02
	And they wanted me to go alone,	38:05
	with no flashlight,	38:10
	all by myself,	38:13
	and it was pitch dark.	38:16
	And they insisted, I went,	38:20
	I was scared to death.	38:24
	I am still afraid of the dark.	38:28
	But not just of the dark, of night.	38:32
	I am just as afraid, or maybe even more afraid,	38:36
	of the dark night of the spirit, the dark of the soul.	38:39
	That dark we can and do know both in the night	38:42
	and in the day.	38:47
	But I find that I'm not the only one	38:50
	who is afraid of the dark.	38:53
	There are others, indeed, many others.	38:56
	And I know now that we can experience the dark	39:00
	even in broad daylight.	39:03
	Even when the sun shines brilliantly,	39:06
	even on a glorious March or April sunlit day,	39:08
	or even on a beautiful moonlit night,	39:12
	even when there is light all around.	39:15
	Just as having people all around does not keep us	39:18
	from being alone, so having light all around	39:21
	does not keep us from being in the dark.	39:25
	The dark that really hurts	39:29
	is that hovering,	39:32
	haunting, shadow-filled dark that lingers and stays,	39:34
	that covers our spirits, that drapes our souls,	39:39
	that darkens our very being, and will not go away.	39:43
	I'm convinced that we all have times of darkness.	39:49
	None walks in the light always, no, not one of us.	39:53
	Where, then, do you go,	39:59
	when it gets dark for you?	40:03
	Where is your source of light?	40:06
	Your moment of brightness?	40:08
	Your ray of hope and assurance?	40:10
	Your spark to take away some of the shadow	40:13
	and the gloom and the dreariness?	40:16
	I want to pick up on a word of Henri Nouwen's	40:20
	in his book, "Reaching Out,"	40:22
	where he does talk about moving from loneliness	40:24
	to solitude, and suggest to you this morning that	40:27
	we have a place to go when it gets dark.	40:30
	And that place to go is deep within us	40:33
	as we recognize the presence of God within us	40:36
	and move from loneliness to solitude.	40:40
	As I have reflected on this,	40:45
	I want to be very, very careful this morning, though,	40:46
	because I am not advocating a new personal-isolation-ism,	40:50
	a neo-narcissism, a new-private-ism,	40:55
	but a turning to one's own self to find the strength	41:00
	and the will to go on, to move out to others,	41:03
	and to reach out and up to God.	41:07
	A turning to one's self that does not end there,	41:10
	but begins there.	41:14
	Where do you go?	41:18
	You might go to that outer transcendent	41:20
	spiritual presence called God.	41:23
	That, indeed, is one place we may go.	41:26
	You may go to others.	41:30
	That, too, is one place we may go to find help	41:32
	and support when it is dark.	41:35
	But I want to suggest, to you and to me,	41:39
	that you may indeed go to your own soul.	41:41
	It was Meister Eckhart who once wrote,	41:46
	"To get at the core of God at his greatest,	41:47
	"one must get at the core of himself at his least.	41:51
	"For no one can know God who has not first known himself.	41:55
	"Go to the depths of the soul,	42:01
	"the secret place of the most high,	42:03
	"to the roots, to the heights.	42:06
	"For all that God can do is focused there.	42:08
	"All that God means is focused there."	42:14
	It's like a middle-aged woman told me	42:19
	at the spiritual life retreat recently.	42:21
	She said,	42:24
	"Each of us must learn to face	42:27
	"the dark moments of life alone,	42:30
	"on our own.	42:34
	"No one can take away or relieve	42:37
	"some kinds of pain we have."	42:41
	Where do you go when it gets dark?	42:47
	When you have lost a dear friend or mate or loved one.	42:52
	When you have been told that you have serious illness	42:58
	or that you must face a crucial operation.	43:01
	When you find out that you did not get into med school	43:08
	or the one of your choice or your second choice,	43:12
	or any of them.	43:17
	When you learn that you have not been accepted	43:20
	to law school or graduate school.	43:22
	Or when you have had your last interview through	43:27
	the placement office and you still have no job.	43:30
	Or when you discover that you have been admitted	43:36
	to the school of your choice and you wonder, what now?	43:38
	What really lies ahead for me?	43:42
	When you face the fact this year	43:47
	that your "dream major"	43:51
	was just not for you, that you really couldn't make it	43:53
	in that field, or that you didn't like it,	43:57
	or didn't want to make it.	43:59
	When you became aware that your parents really	44:02
	did not know you or understand you at all.	44:04
	Or when you, as a parent, recognize that your child	44:09
	or your children really were going to live their own lives.	44:12
	Not only because of you, but in spite of you.	44:16
	Where do you go when it gets dark in your soul?	44:21
	When you flunk that crucial course or scored too low	44:28
	on that entrance exam.	44:32
	Or that plan for marriage this spring or summer	44:34
	was called off.	44:37
	Or that hope for a job was gone.	44:39
	Or that good friendship was over.	44:41
	I think that there are reservoirs of strength and peace	44:45
	and assurance and perseverance and calm	44:49
	deep within each of us that we never really know	44:53
	are there until we are forced	44:57
	to call upon them and use them.	45:00
	There is a hidden grace of God placed deep in your soul	45:04
	that may never begin to grow or nourish or blossom	45:09
	or bear fruit until or unless	45:14
	you search deep	45:19
	and deep and deep and deeper still.	45:21
	The grace of God is present with each of us.	45:27
	An abundance far beyond what we dare to expect	45:30
	or hope or believe or imagine or realize.	45:33
	It is there.	45:36
	That's what Paul meant and knew when he said,	45:38
	"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."	45:40
	That's what Jesus meant when he said to the disciples,	45:45
	"Greater things than I have done, you will be able to do."	45:48
	That's what Jesus meant when he said to us,	45:52
	"My grace is sufficient for you."	45:54
	Most of us, it seems to me, seem to keep looking	46:00
	everywhere else to find insight and support and meaning.	46:03
	Mary MacGregor in one of her current popular songs	46:10
	has the words "I've been to every place,"	46:13
	and then she sings on a little, and then she says,	46:17
	"I've even been to paradise, but I've never been to me."	46:19
	But we cannot run.	46:27
	We cannot hide.	46:30
	We cannot get away from the dark sometimes.	46:32
	And what happens to most of us is that	46:37
	when we hurt or are disappointed or are frustrated	46:39
	or feel empty, we look for someone else	46:43
	often to say nice things to us or to make us feel good	46:46
	or to help us get over it, whatever it may be.	46:50
	When really, what we want and what we need is	46:54
	someone who will not help us to evade or to avoid	46:57
	the realities of life,	47:00
	but someone who can clarify them for us.	47:02
	Someone who can help us to see better	47:07
	and understand more fully.	47:10
	Someone who can describe our pain, not take it away.	47:13
	Someone who knows our hurt,	47:18
	not someone who refuses to talk about it.	47:20
	Someone who knows what the darkness is,	47:23
	even when neither of us can find the light.	47:26
	The person who can give us a sense of hope	47:29
	is the one who knows the human condition	47:32
	and can encourage us to face the realities of life.	47:35
	People who, when we know it is dark,	47:41
	won't tell us it is light.	47:45
	Who, when we hurt, won't deny our pain	47:48
	and tell us, "Oh, you'll be all right."	47:52
	When, in reality, neither they nor we know	47:56
	that we will be all right or that everything will be okay.	48:00
	I want someone who can help me face myself.	48:05
	My strengths and my weaknesses, and in light of who I am.	48:10
	Somebody who can help me to face the world	48:15
	as it really is for me.	48:18
	Now, I don't know about you, but somehow or other	48:23
	I have lived lo these many years of my life	48:26
	with the false expectation that there was someone else	48:28
	who could face life for me.	48:33
	Someone who could take my loneliness away.	48:37
	Someone who could take my burdens away.	48:42
	Someone who, when it grew dark,	48:46
	would turn on the lights for me.	48:49
	But now I believe, as Nouwen writes, listen.	48:52
	"No friend or lover, no husband or wife,	48:57
	no community or commune will ever be able,	49:02
	ever be able, to put to rest our deepest cravings	49:07
	for wholeness."	49:13
	No one, and no group,	49:18
	will ever be able to put to rest	49:23
	our deepest cravings for wholeness.	49:26
	Others can help, communion with God can help,	49:30
	others can take away some of our loneliness	49:34
	and pain and hurt.	49:37
	God can relieve some of it.	49:39
	But the woman was right.	49:42
	Some dark moments of life we live and live alone	49:44
	save for that unseen presence of God	49:49
	which is with us always.	49:52
	Abraham faced the pain of sacrificing his only son,	49:57
	alone.	50:02
	And it was dark.	50:04
	Jacob wrestled with a stranger or with an angel	50:06
	or with God.	50:09
	He was alone	50:11
	and it was dark.	50:13
	Joseph had to pretend that he knew not his own brothers	50:15
	when they were hungry and starving	50:18
	and he was all alone and it was dark.	50:20
	Moses lead his people to, but could not go into,	50:25
	the promised land.	50:28
	And he was alone and it was dark.	50:30
	Peter, after living very close to Jesus for three years,	50:34
	denied him three times on that fateful morn	50:37
	and you can better believe that it was dark	50:41
	and he was alone.	50:45
	Saul tried desperately to get rid of the early church,	50:47
	to kill all the Christians.	50:50
	And walking towards Damascus one day,	50:51
	heard the Lord speak to him as he was alone and it was dark.	50:54
	Even Jesus, during the temptation,	51:00
	when he would leave the crowds,	51:04
	when he would pray in the garden,	51:05
	when he was standing before Pilate,	51:07
	when he was carrying his cross,	51:09
	when he was dying on the cross,	51:10
	when he was being raised from the dead,	51:12
	was alone	51:15
	and it was dark.	51:17
	Thus, as I see it, there is much much precedent	51:20
	in the Old Testament and in the New Testament	51:24
	to tell us where to go when it gets dark.	51:26
	And so, instead of running away from the dark,	51:29
	we must protect it and turn it into a creative,	51:32
	fruitful time and an experience, not of loneliness,	51:36
	but of solitude.	51:40
	Since we cannot escape the dark night of the soul sometimes,	51:43
	there are some words that have come to me	51:47
	to tell me what we may do with the dark.	51:50
	Do not run from it.	51:54
	Do not run in the midst of it.	51:57
	Or in the presence of it.	52:00
	Examine it.	52:02
	Explore it.	52:04
	Expose it.	52:05
	Experiment with it.	52:07
	Expect it.	52:10
	Where do you go when it gets dark?	52:13
	You do not search frantically for a switch to flip	52:17
	or a string to pull or a lantern to light	52:20
	or a flashlight to turn on.	52:23
	There may be no artificial light available.	52:27
	Where do you go?	52:32
	You do not run frantically to find more activities,	52:33
	to do more things, to be on the go,	52:36
	or to be up and out and busy in doing,	52:39
	even in doing good things.	52:42
	At times, there may be nothing you can do	52:45
	that will help.	52:49
	You may want to turn to others,	52:51
	for often others can help light the way,	52:54
	but be careful.	52:57
	Expect not too much from others.	52:59
	You may want to turn to God, the outward upward	53:05
	spiritual light may be just what you want or need,	53:08
	but be careful.	53:13
	There may be moments for you and for me,	53:15
	just as there were for Jesus,	53:18
	when we are not sure that even God is present.	53:19
	The dark may seem to be total dark.	53:25
	Where then do you and I go when it gets dark?	53:32
	To the grace and strength of soul that God has already	53:36
	planted deep within each of us.	53:40
	To make our pain-filled loneliness into a creative,	53:44
	responsive, healing solitude.	53:48
	The psalmist has some words, oh Lord,	53:54
	"When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,	53:58
	"the moon and the stars which thou hast established,	54:01
	"who am I that thou art mine full of me?	54:06
	"And who are we that thou dost care for us?	54:10
	"Yet thou hast made us little less than God	54:14
	"and dost crown us with glory and honor."	54:19
	And in a verse in Psalms,	54:26
	not very familiar to many of us, in Psalms 131, listen,	54:27
	"Oh Lord,	54:31
	"my heart is not lifted up,	54:34
	"my eyes are not raised too high,	54:36
	"I do not occupy myself with things too great	54:40
	"or too marvelous for me,	54:43
	"but I have calmed and quieted my soul	54:45
	"like a child quieted at its mother's breast.	54:50
	"Like a child that is quieted,	54:55
	"is my soul."	54:59
	And then Psalms 139,	55:02
	"Oh Lord, thou hast searched me and know me.	55:04
	"If I say let only darkness cover me and the light about me	55:08
	"be night, even the darkness is not dark to thee.	55:13
	"The night is as bright as the day,	55:18
	"for darkness is as light with thee."	55:21
	After all, my friends,	55:27
	it is not the external circumstance of life,	55:31
	no matter how dark it may be,	55:35
	it is not the external circumstance or experience.	55:37
	But it is the spirit with which we face it	55:43
	that makes of life what it can be	55:47
	for you and me.	55:52
	Amen.	55:58
	(cheerful organ music)	56:10
	(congregation and choir sing a hymn)	56:38
	♪Amen ♪	58:38
Man	As we remain standing,	58:45
	let us affirm what we believe.	58:48
-	[Man And Congregation] We believe in God,	58:53
	who has created and is creating,	58:55
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	58:59
	to reconcile and make new,	59:02
	who works in us and others by the spirit.	59:05
	We trust God who calls us to be the Church,	59:10
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	59:14
	to love and serve others,	59:18
	to seek justice and resist evil,	59:20
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	59:24
	our judge and our hope	59:28
	in life, in death,	59:31
	in life beyond death,	59:33
	God is with us.	59:36
	We are not alone.	59:38
	Thanks be to God.	59:40
Man	The Lord be with you.	59:43
Congregation	And with your spirit.	59:45
Man	Let us pray.	59:46
Reverend	Almighty God who hast taught us	59:58
	that in returning and rest we shall be saved.	1:00:03
	In quietness and confidence shall be our strength.	1:00:07
	Alert now, our souls, before thee	1:00:14
	with the stillness of a wise trust.	1:00:19
	That in distance	1:00:25
	from the babble of tongues,	1:00:28
	from the dross and glut	1:00:31
	of many words,	1:00:35
	from the emptiness of busy-ness,	1:00:39
	we may know again in the serenity of faith	1:00:43
	that Thou art God.	1:00:47
	Almighty God of compassion,	1:00:56
	who cares for the weakest of thy children,	1:00:59
	we ask thy blessing	1:01:03
	upon all those known and unknown to us	1:01:06
	who suffer in loneliness of spirit	1:01:12
	or body,	1:01:17
	who have been desolated by the death	1:01:20
	of a close and dear one.	1:01:24
	We pray for the children in Lebanon	1:01:28
	who live in dread of death.	1:01:34
	For those in the inner cities, impoverished,	1:01:38
	who must steal to eat.	1:01:43
	For the blacks in Soweto,	1:01:50
	entrapped behind walls of prejudice.	1:01:54
	Stab our spirits awake, oh God,	1:02:00
	to hear the cries of hunger,	1:02:03
	that we may become the instruments of thy peace	1:02:10
	and the soldiers of thy justice.	1:02:14
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord,	1:02:19
	who taught us when we pray to say,	1:02:23
-	[Reverend With Congregation] Our Father,	1:02:27
	which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	1:02:29
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	1:02:33
	on Earth as it is in Heaven.	1:02:38
	Give us this day our daily bread	1:02:41
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:02:44
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:02:47
	And lead us not into temptation,	1:02:52
	but deliver us from evil,	1:02:55
	for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory.	1:02:57
	Amen.	1:03:04
	(cheerful organ music)	1:03:23
	(choir sings a hymnal)	1:03:26
	(calm organ music)	1:04:47
	(choir sings dramatically)	1:04:52
	(choir sings calmly)	1:07:06
	(choir sings)	1:09:31
	(choir sings)	1:13:00
	(organ plays "Praise God, from Whom all Blessings Flow"))	1:15:43
	♪Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; ♪	1:16:01
	♪Praise Him, all creatures here below; ♪	1:16:06
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:16:11
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:16:14
	♪ Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host; ♪	1:16:18
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! ♪	1:16:24
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:16:30
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:16:32
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:16:36
	♪Hallelujah ♪	1:16:39
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:16:42
	♪ Amen ♪	1:16:51
Reverend	In these gifts, we return thanks to thee,	1:17:01
	oh God, and dedicate ourselves afresh	1:17:05
	to the purposes of thy kingdom	1:17:12
	as thy glad servants in the world	1:17:15
	and ministers of thy grace.	1:17:18
	Amen.	1:17:22
	(dramatic organ music)	1:17:25
	(congregation sings a hymn)	1:18:08
Reverend	Now may the blessing of God Almighty,	1:21:19
	Father, son, and holy spirit	1:21:23
	be among you and abide with you now and evermore.	1:21:27
	(choir sings)	1:21:35
	(cheerful organ music)	1:22:00

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Robert T. Young - "Where Do You Go When It Gets Dark?" (April 9, 1978)

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Sermon start time: 35:27. Sermon end time: 55:59.
Dark times can also be a time to connect to God and others, as well as oneself. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: Where, then, do you go, when it gets dark for you? Where do you get your source of light?

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April 9, 1978

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Young, Robert T., 1935-2009

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