Dennis,  in so many ways, we are faced with similar questions that the original disciples had.  You presented a number of them.  Do we pull a bushel basket over us, sit in the dark, and wait? Or do we "walk in the light" using the new and unknown situations to grow as the disciples of Jesus?  Do we stay with the certitudes coming from the traditional markers?  Or do we move into the bold light of Christ, and the unknown?

We know that Jesus challenged his disciples THEN and he challenges us NOW.  Light or Darkness---what will we choose?