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

[Ann Markle]

I agree, Grace. Wow. This is beautiful. Thanks for sending it.

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:07 AM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow...just Wow!
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> >> From: Steve Garnaas-
> >> Subject: [Unfolding Light] — Every year
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> >> Dearly Beloved,
> >>
> >> Grace and peace to you.
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> >>
> >> 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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Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com