Step Into the Darkness

As I was driving home from Idaho a few nights ago I was surprised at how dark the road was before me. Just by looking you would have thought that at any moment the earth would simply drop off into nothingness. I snapped a quick photo as I realized metaphor that laid before me and how perfectly it applied to my life. I have my ideas of what is ahead as I prepare to head off to Africa but, mostly it is all unknown darkness. Yet as I think of the adventures yet to come I am reminded of a quote from Elder Boyd K. Paker -


"Somewhere in your quest for spiritual knowledge, there is that ‘leap of faith,’ as the philosophers call it. It is the moment when you have gone to the edge of the light and step into the darkness to discover that the way is lighted ahead for just a footstep or two.”
We can never truly know what lies ahead but if we put our trust in the Lord and make that Leap of Faith, I am certain that just ahead we will find the bright sun rising.