From The Deacon's Bench

Throughout history, humans have spent a great deal of time and effort framing countless experiences in terms of darkness and light. As children, many of us were afraid of the dark, most of us who have or had children often placed a night light in the child's bedroom.  According to research, most children under the age of two have a fear of the dark to some degree, however, most children and adults "outgrow" that fear. Most adults tend to be less comfortable in darkness and as one ages, that level of discomfort tends to increase which could be related to eyesight issues that are a natural part of the ageing process.  However. there are also some adults who are much more comfortable being up and about after dark and are very uncomfortable in the light, but they are more the exception rather than the rule. Throughout literature, there are countless references to darkness and most of those references are indeed in one way or another negative.   Many popular phrases use refere