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Writer's pictureRichard Butler

The Equinox - The Light Returns


So today, Monday 20 March, is the Spring Equinox. The day when the length of the day is 12 hours, exactly matching the length of the night. It feels like a watershed, a promise that things will get better as we emerge from the winter. A promise of longer and warmer days, reminding us of those balmy summer days from the past. And for those of us marking Lent, a reminder that Easter is approaching – that the light of the resurrection will soon come flooding in to obliterate the darkness.


That light will always conquer darkness is a physical fact. From time to time I find myself walking through our darkened church to lock up while carrying my bicycle light. It’s a graphic reminder that the darkness cannot prevail against the light – even a vast hall of darkness is defeated by a small bicycle torch. Christians understand that God’s light of love must inevitably prevail against the darkness of evil and hate, and the Equinox seems a good time to remember that. As Psalm 18 puts it:


It is you who light my lamp;

the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.

This God—his way is perfect;

the promise of the Lord proves true;

he is a shield for all who take refuge in him.

For who is God except the Lord?

And who is a rock besides our God?—

the God who girded me with strength,

and made my way safe.


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