I experienced a little of this tonight. Literally. As in one moment I was watching yet another syndicated episode of Friends, and the next moment I was sitting in the dark. I think my exact words were, “Well, there’s that.”

It came out of nowhere. There was no reason for the power to go out. There was no storm outside or any excess of things plugged in. It was just a very random power outage.

Sometimes, life is like that. You may be going along, minding your own business when, just as suddenly, your lights go out. You lose a job. A loved one dies unexpectedly. A check bounces.

All of a sudden, you feel like you’re in total darkness. You can’t see to find your way out. You may even feel a bit of panic building up inside you.

In those moments, it’s like the old Corrie Ten Boom analogy. When you’re on a train going through a dark tunnel, you don’t automatically jump off the train as soon as it gets dark. You trust the conductor.

In the same way, the same God who has guided you all along in those well-lit places will get you through all those dark places, too. I’ve always heard the old cliche that there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel. I do know that when I can’t find that light or see my way, I can always trust the One who is leading me to get me where He wants me to be.