Inner Work
Light and shadow live in all of us. A perennial truth. From where does the light come, and what is it that hides in the dark? Out on the edge of the wilderness, Mary and Joseph’s son walks toward the river where his cousin John is baptizing all who crave new life. In solidarity, he […]
Secretly Revealed – Dec. 29, 2020
“And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes […]
Even in This Darkness
I’m writing this on the longest night of the year. The sun is as far away from us as it can be. The winter solstice. Shortest day of the year. The gravity of this is not lost on me. It cannot get any darker. I feel it more than I see it. Did you feel […]
Annunciation – Dec. 23, 2020
She did not cry, ‘I cannot, I am not worthy,’nor, ‘I have not the strength.’She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging coerced.Bravest of all humans, consent illumined her.The room filled with its light,the lily glowed in it, and the iridescent wings.Consent, courage unparalleled,opened her utterly. -Denise Levertov, from “Annunciation”
