Separating light and darkness

God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. He doesn't eliminate the darkness in this verse — He orders it. He creates a boundary between them, names them, gives them their times. There is something here that has been speaking to me about how God works in our lives. We often pray for the darkness to be removed — for the difficulty, the confusion, the grief to simply go away. But God's first response to darkness in creation is not to eliminate it but to bring order to it, to separate it from the light, to give each its proper place and time. Evening and morning. There is a season for each. This doesn't make the dark seasons easy, but it does make them ordered — held within the hand of a God who knows exactly where the boundary is.