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# When the Light Frightens More Than the Darkness
- URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/when-the-light-frightens-more-than-the-darkness/
- Published: 2025-07-04T21:00:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T01:04:18.000Z
- Description: I had a simple conversation with a friend, but it lit a very strong light inside me.
- Author: Airton Humber
- Tags: #en, #de-quando-a-luz-assusta-mais-que-as-trevas

I had a simple conversation with a friend, but it lit a very strong light inside me.  
He works in the medical field, and he told me something he hears often:  
many older patients who in some way sought the spiritual world come to him with pain, physical limitations, chronic illnesses.

And he said it in a tone of warning, of care, almost like someone making a recommendation:  
“It's better not to mess with these things…”

At the time, I just listened. But that sentence kept echoing inside me.

I realized that his fear was not exactly of the darkness.  
It was of the light.  
It was not evil that frightened him, it was the possibility of the invisible, of the spiritual, of what cannot be explained.

And this touched me deeply, because I myself have been living this in my own body.

A few years ago, I started a blog where I share reflections on the Scriptures, not in a religious way, but seeking the spirit of the Word, the beauty of simplicity, the truth that transforms.  
And exactly one week after I started the blog, my body began to show signs of parkinsonism.  
A progressive condition, subtle, but very real.  
And the curious thing, or the spiritual thing, is that I was in the best physical shape for my age. I felt almost like an athlete.  
Working well, firm in my purpose, at peace.

And suddenly, this limitation came.

Many could say:  
“See? He messed with the spiritual world and got sick…”

But I see it with other eyes.

I see what Paul saw when he wrote about his “thorn in the flesh”, something that limited him, bothered him, but that he understood as necessary:

“A thorn in the flesh was given to me… so that I would not exalt myself.”  
(2 Corinthians 12:7)

´That is how I feel.  
At that moment, I was receiving so many revelations, with so much clarity and intensity…  
that, without this limit, I would have lost myself.  
In vanity, in haste, in the arrogance of someone who thinks he has already understood everything.

This thorn in my body is not a punishment.  
It is a brake.  
It is a protection.  
It is a way for God to remind me, every day, that strength is not in me, but in Him.

And as I remembered my friend's words, an image came strongly to my mind:  
It is as if the devil had managed to surround the light with barbed wire, with an enormous sign:  
“DANGER, DO NOT CROSS.”  
As if the true spiritual were forbidden, dangerous, frightening.

And outside this fence, he released everything that is worst, selfishness, lies, addictions, false spiritualities, but labeled it all as “normal”, “freedom”, “modern life”, “personal experience”.

And so we go on:  
afraid of the light… and totally adapted to the darkness.

In fact, in that same moment of the conversation, I said something to him that came to me with force and clarity:  
“Nowadays, we are only afraid of the good. Of the bad, we have gotten used to it.”

And the more I think about it, the more I realize it is true.  
We live in a dark world, immersed in lies, corruption, competition, selfishness, emotional illnesses…  
And nobody is afraid of that.  
We call it “normal life”.

But when someone begins to seek the invisible world, the world of God, the world of truth, the warning soon comes:  
“Be careful with that…”  
“Better not to mess with it…”

And that is where the distortion is.  
People are not afraid of evil.  
They are afraid of the light.  
Because the light reveals. And in revealing, it confronts.  
But only the light can heal.

The spiritual world is not neutral.  
Either it is light, or it is darkness in disguise.  
And the body, many times, manifests what the soul has not understood.  
That is why so many people suffer without knowing why.

I go on with my thorn.  
But I go on with peace.  
Because I know that God's grace is enough for me.  
And I know that His power is made perfect in weakness.

That is why I keep choosing the light.  
Even when it confronts me.  
Even when it hurts.  
Because only in it is there life.