I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

I'm very knowledgeable of the challenges before me.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

Бог приходят ярким светом
В души к людям, тьмой одетым.
Кто же к свету дня привык,
Человечий видит лик.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.