IS IT TRUE ? The Shadow proves the Sunshine?

Switchfoot has a song from the album "Nothing Is Sound" which goes like this-

" We are crooked souls trying to stay up straight,
Dry eyes in the pouring rain where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Two scared little runaways
Hold fast till the break of daylight where
The shadow proves the sunshine... "

and so on.

Could it be true?
Assuming that Switchfoot was talking of pain,suffering and trouble as Shadow,and the end of that suffering and finally finding hope in God as Sunshine,
could this be true?
Can the beginning,being and end of suffering point us towards God?

Can the sudden pain inflicted by life,be something more than my darkest night?
Can it be something that will be used in my life,at the very least,as a wound that would make me (hopefully!) wiser?

But it makes sense when put that way. The Shadow proves the Sunshine.
Even when the sunshine was out there all the time, we only recognise what warmth and light was upon us only after the shadow comes along.

What if my car skids on the frozen road,one moonless night,and crashes through the barrier into the cold,chilling river?
Will i curse God and die, even if i was the one who was over-speeding and not Him?
Will i remember that my brakes were faulty? Or will i still blame the ice?
Will i ever know that the cold waters had extinguished the spark of flame,right next to the car's gas tank?

What if the driver sinks with the car and dies one of the worst deaths possible?

Will the Shadow prove the Sunshine then?

We can only hope to God it will;to someone.
somewhere.
sometime.

Help the prejudiced thinker.

Here we come.

We wake up, knowing not what to believe.
We go through our religious motions,fearfully hoping,and lovingly talking to a God we believe in.
We live in a world, where subtle messages pummel us the moment we step out the door..prejudices about our faith, about our unbelief,about our aspirations,about our hopes.

Prejudices about ourselves,our friends,our God,our Agnosticism, our Atheism.
We cannot tell which are more in number- the water vapour in the fog or the prejudices we create while walking through that fog.

A simple bus journey can supply us (and we buy it) with prejudices about the person before us, about the glaring conductor,about our journeys,about our safeties,about our ticket fares..

Every moment we stand in one day.
Every moment we sit in one day.
Every moment we try to sleep in one day.
Every moment we think about these thoughts we should or should not think.
Every moment we are prejudiced.

Every single person we pass by, presents us with such a wide range of thoughts to associate with,but only one prejudiced opinion to settle upon.
We live in a world where every word heard, or overheard, or worse, imagined, has a hint at it's end.We live by these hints.

We can't act upon thoughts. Because dishonesty seeped in with prejudice.
We wonder when to act. Because procrastination seeped in with dishonesty.
We wonder how to believe. Because unbelief seeped in with procrastination.

And we don't know how to swim in that locked room where all of this seeps in.

The only time we are right,is when we stumble upon God's truth in our haze.
We say- " oh..i am still on my way. i am not lost yet. "
Yet.

But fickle-minded,we are tossed around waves, by every single school of thought,concerned with issues like - "is veg the right thing or non-veg?" to "can we ever trust the Bible to be true?"

We say our regular prayers-
"i don't have enough faith in You."
"i am a believer;HELP me believe."
"i don't KNOW which is better for me-to seek evidence or to trust like a child does."

Prejudice is the evil twin of doubt.

Trouble is, we seem to enjoy these prolonged vacillations.
Much like the married man who is prolonging an affair.

" ENJOY?? I Hate IT ! But i CANT stop it..!"

So what other explanation can we give for undecided ways,for long-lasting,rusted procrastinations?

Prejudiced minds breed fear,inside the mind.
Fear of a decision is the worst of it's kind.
We fear what we may find. We forget we are prejudiced.
So we continue in fear. As if this could be eternal.

We Prejudiced thinkers.

We must stop being dishonest with ourselves.
Lest we fear the day God will be honest with us.