The Two Powers

My Musings – “It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”  (Sam Gamgee, The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien).

All the great stories are full of darkness and danger.  Good pitted against evil. Suspense over which would prevail, as they were equally balanced against each other so that the outcome balanced on the edge of a razor.  Good did not always triumph.  Evil was never fully vanquished – only for a season before it took shape once again.

What about our great story?  In these “last days” as…