I love the idea of taking the path through the darkness. My immediate thought when reading that is how a theme that has emerged between my wife and I and our kids is that discomfort is okay. We can handle hunger, thirst, fatigue, and in fact such feelings are often necessary to endure to get the big payoff — a beautiful view during an epic hike, or the pride of accomplishing new fitness goal. Of course, you’re post is more about the dark emotional times we experience, but I think the same idea applies. We will not appreciate the light, or possibly won’t even recognize it’s beauty and wonder, unless we have traveled through darkness. And you add the next level of actually embracing it. I will be mulling this over for a while. Thanks!