The marketplace of our lives is where we live and love and where to a large extent we discover God. It is not despite the title and tenor of the present book all darkness. Even when the darkness predominates in the various ways described in the pages which follow still love is the root and foundation (Eph 3:17) not only in the love of the Lord but also in the love of all those he has given us to love. At times their love may not shed much light in our darkness but even then it provides warmth. It sustains us and gives us life even on the darkest days.