The morning will come. It will simply come. Because it is the nature of the morning to come. Only patience is required of us, patience to endure the darkness with the knowledge that soon there will be dawn.
"One may lie down weeping at nightfall; but at dawn there are shouts of joy." (Psalms 30:6). This is not a supplication or a request; it is a description of a fact. This is how the world was created, and it is one of its fundamental laws. Evening is a state of darkness, the absence of light, of nothingness, of hiddenness. Morning is a state of light, of settling the mind, of clarity, allowing us to see to the bottom of the lake.
It is true that after the night comes the morning, and it is true that after drought there is recovery, and after a harrowing birth, there is a sweet baby to comfort and cherish, and after endless disappointment from society, I found one more worthy and deserving of my trust.
That is true. But the above is simple and understood because even if we forget, the world reminds us that this is how it is, always, even when it takes time. After night comes morning.
I believe that the author of these lines is reminding us that "One may lie down weeping at nightfall; but at dawn there are shouts of joy." always, not only when we take the right actions and dramatic steps, not only when we dig through caves and break our darkness, but the morning will come even if we don't take big and dramatic actions, even if we don't dig through caves and wallow in it.
The morning will come. It will simply come. Because it is the nature of the morning to come. Only patience is required of us, patience to endure the darkness with the knowledge that soon there will be dawn.
And if we're talking about knowledge, I ask myself to understand the implication of this principle that after darkness comes light. It is a logical deduction that if this is correct and after darkness comes light, and darkness is an existing fact that doesn't go anywhere, then it can be inferred that after light comes darkness, that in the morning there will be joy, and in the evening, weeping will stay.
The renewed meaning of this verse for me is not just to remember the summit when I scratch the bottom but also to remember the bottom when I stand at the summit! Yes, to let it shave a bit of my perfect joy, to let the knowledge that the sun will soon set and I'll be in the absence of light, to plant humility in me.
Like a cup breaking at the wedding, like a piece of the wall left exposed in the new house, like a tithe separated for one who has no grain.
For me, in the evening, weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Courtesy of the 929 website.