Not Alone, Not Afraid

I have made epic journeys, competed in marathon races, battled and conquered fierce enemies, swum the oceans of the world - in my mind. Yes, like all of you who grew up reading under the covers, reading on the front of your dad's motorbike, reading in the shower (did no one else try that?), I often see real life through the lenses of an epic story. This song is about an epic journey - well, actually, I wrote it in high school, it was about teenage struggles, which are always more interesting if you imagine them in terms of an epic story - a heroine setting her face like flint, "though the shadows grow so tall", though adversaries "press her hard on every side", for she knows this is true, in the present tense, no less: "the light has shone in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:5