Darkness attracts light and is gradually alleviated.

Negative thoughts are the absence of light, but that absence of light is waiting for illumination. That absence exists and has an influence. What is that influence? The influence is the recognition by light of an absence to be filled, an emptiness to be filled. It is not a separateness; it is an emptiness.

The tendency of light is to expand. There is no tendency to darkness. Light expands; darkness is inactive. When there are negative thoughts, those negative thoughts are a kind of darkness that has influence through its presence, not through its energy. Its presence encourages the response of light.

The path is illuminated by the Spirit Center, by God, because otherwise the path lacks that illumination. If the path of your life needed no illumination, then there would be no energy expanding to accomplish that illumination. The light that is God’s light expands because there are conditions where such light is not recognized. That is the sole reason that light expands, that light is disseminated.

You cannot disseminate darkness, yet darkness exists. The negative thoughts that human beings have are essentially evidence of the need for light, and that light naturally comes. So, the darkness of spirit, worry and concern, serves a purpose because it attracts light, and when that happens, the human experience of darkness is gradually alleviated. It is diminished, and it is replaced by faith.