Treasures of Darkness

Reading Isaiah 45:3 today, though I have read it and memorized it several times before....,  this morning a sudden revelation came upon my soul. Epiphany! Eureka!! Yes, "and the Water Blushed",and  "the Word became Flesh" .

It is about the "treasures of darkness":

And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel..

It suddenly occured to me that it is about the "dark night of the soul" as propounded by St. John of the Cross. It is the darkness 
through which Mother Teresa travelled as exposed in 'Come , Be my Light' . 
Shakespeare's words "Sweet are the uses of adversity" are just a diluted way of saying this. 
It is the Psalm 22, which Jesus recited during His last moments of agony on the Cross.
It is the three days of grave-darkness which Lazrus experienced inside his tomb. The details of it can be found in the book by Stephen W Smith in The Lazarus Life: Spiritual Transformation for Ordinary People.
It is the Hope about which Pope Benedict wrote in Spe Salvi 
And yes, it is about the "Holy Darkness" , the beautiful song about Hope by Dan Schutte. .................

That is exactly what St. Paul meant by saying " for we walk by faith, not by sight." in 2 Corinthians 5:7