The Color Black

Black is the color that gives all other colors their contrast. If not for black, blue could not be blue, red could not be red. Without black, the world would lose its brilliance.

Black is the color associated with hardship and pain. It’s in the time of blackness that life comes into clarity. The darkness forces self-examination. In the black, there is only the truth begging to be dealt with. In the dark people become real.

Life is full of white times, good times; times of family, friends, and peace, the birth of a child, the achievement of a goal. These are the times of blessing made brilliant by black. In the absence of black times, the white would not be so precious.

Black is the color of the common man. It was said that a black shirt is the one color we all own.

Grief, mourning, and death live in blackness so dark that many will not return from visiting them.

Into the black we are called. To walk with the lost sometimes leading, sometimes following, sometimes standing still. But never let us be alone.

Black has the power to move us to oneness, may we live in it together. In the black we will be real, we will be known.