I listened to Susan Porter's talk during the Christmas Devotional 2025, and I appreciated her message about feeling God's light no matter the life experience she was going through. 

She told about a memorable Christmas Eve when her husband was in the hospital fighting for his life after surgery. Their family fasted and prayed. Due to the alertness of a nurse in the hospital, Bruce Porter was diagnosed with a respiratory illness and treatment was provided. The darkness they experienced was replaced with light and hope and Bruce recovered.

Six years later on Christmas Eve, Susan's husband was again in the hospital. He received a diagnosis and the doctors had a plan, but Bruce was told by the Spirit that there was nothing the doctors could do to save his life. Two days later he passed peacefully away at home surrounded by his family.

"Although each Christmas Eve had a different outcome, each one is sacred to us. Were tears shed, deep sorrow felt, along with loss and loneliness? Yes! And did we feel the light of God's love? Yes! At what felt like the going down of our sun in our lives, He gave us light and understanding."

"During our lives, there will be times when the sun may go down on our hopes and dreams. But because Jesus Christ came to earth and rose on the third day triumphant over sin and death, there will be no permanent darkness at the going down of the sun."

"There will be no permanent darkness when our nights come."

President Uchtorf gave a beautiful talk during the priesthood session of October 2017 General Conference.  These passages on light are very meaningful and inspiring to me:

If you open your mind and heart to receive the Light of Christ and humbly follow the Savior, you will receive more light.  Line upon line, here a little and there a little, you will gather more light and truth into your souls until darkness has been banished from your life. This is the ultimate remedy for spiritual sickness.  Darkness vanishes in the presence of light.

Every time you turn your hearts to God in humble prayer, you experience His light.  Every time you seek His word and will in the scriptures, the light grows in brightness.  Every time you notice someone in need and sacrifice your own comfort to reach out in love, the light expands and swells.  Every time you reject temptation and choose purity, every time you seek or extend forgiveness, every time you courageously testify of truth, the light chases away darkness and attracts others who are also seeking light and truth.

My dear friends, it is our quest to seek the Lord until His light of everlasting life burns brightly within us and our testimony becomes confident and strong even in the midst of darkness.