[Magdalen] Fwd: [Unfolding Light] — Every year

[Grace Cangialosi]

Wow...just Wow!


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>> From: Steve Garnaas-
>> Subject: [Unfolding Light] — Every year
>> 
>> Dearly Beloved,
>> 
>> Grace and peace to you.
>> 
>> 
>> Every year 
>> he says, “I love these people.
>> I'm going to go be with them,
>> just to walk them through the darkness.”
>> Every year the angels tell him,
>> No, this is a bad idea.
>> It never works.
>> But the Eternal One nods at him and smiles
>> a sad little smile,
>> and he pours himself out
>> into a great mysterious emptiness,
>> and he comes.
>> He always comes
>> and walks with us,
>> and every year I walk with him,
>> he smiles and nods that same smiling nod.
>> 
>> There is the brief moment in the stable—
>> despite the hardship quite lovely, really—
>> but then the hard work, 
>> the road, the town square, the disputes....
>> And then he is taken. 
>> Every year, taken:
>> shot beside me as we walk,
>> jailed, deported, lynched, crucified.
>> 
>> I walk on without him,
>> looking for a welcome place for him,
>> trying to bear that light,
>> let it gleam just a little...
>> And then it gets darker,
>> until it seems stupid and hopeless and foolish,
>> and then once again,
>> the angels shaking their heads
>> but singing glory anyway,
>> he comes. 
>> Knowing, he comes, 
>> every year he comes.
>> And I watch for them to take him,
>> and they do take him, every year,
>> and I say, 
>> “The angels are right, this doesn't work.”
>> He nods and smiles and says,
>> “Yes it does.” 
>> And he comes again.
>> And I, 
>> a tiny light in a great emptiness,
>> already
>> I am waiting for him. 
>> 
>> 
>>          
>> Deep blessings,
>> Pastor Steve
>> 
>> __________________ 
>> Steve Garnaas-Holmes
>> Unfolding Light
>> www.unfoldinglight.net
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