Have you heard of Derek Jarman?  Unless you follow the doings of punk rock and film in Great Britain, you likely have not.  Jarman, who died in 1995 at the all too early age of 52, was a visionary filmmaker who produced a number of innovative and ground breaking movies about various British cultural icons, including the queen of England.  He was famous for taking accepted social conventions and turning them upside down, for taking the venerable and making it common.
     Although many of his works, including his films Jubilee, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Caravaggio, have been highly controversial, primarily due to theiUr twisted imagery and heavy use of nudity, I find them to be apt pictures of a remarkable and often unbearably diverse world.  Although we may not like everything Jarman did, and although we may disagree with his perspectives on existence, we ponder what they say about humanity.  How is our species so adept at fusing darkness with light?
     Genesis 1:2 tells us that in the very beginning, "darkness was over the face of the deep."  Until God spoke, there was no light.