Standing Up

There are times an urge swells up so fiercely inside, it becomes a taskmaster with a stinging whip. From where does darkness attain such awesome might to consume the power of a G-dly soul?

It is not its own power--for darkness has no power of its own. Darkness is no more than the absence of light, and your soul is pure light.

It is a power G–d has granted the dark on a temporary understanding, so that it may challenge the human soul and awaken its innermost depths.

That is why, as soon as you will stand up and say, "My soul is not the chattel of any taskmaster. I have free will to choose as I please and I choose life!"--before that instant is over, the tyrant inside is no more, as darkness vanishes before the light.