As darkness within
Is wed to darkness without,
Freed from the wright of light,
Let my eyes sleep,
Relieved of all intensities…
This is a section from one of John O’Donohue’s blessings, titled Before Sleep, from the book To Bless The Space Between Us. It’s such a beautiful book, the kind that needs to be read aloud. I’m looking forward to getting to know this book better.
Blessed be the longing that brought you here
and quickens your soul with wonder.
This poem by John O’Donohue, as featured on Julies blog.
Every day I play the role of a beggar. I look to the charity of others, seemingly wanting something for nothing to feed my ego and the overwhelming need to belong. Every day I play the role of a hooker. I try to see the words, ideas and actions I think might make me desirable to others, often against my own better judgment, in order to get the emotional validation I need to survive.
These words by Tim Huff, as featured on Jonnys blog.
“I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past has suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.
I know too that the powerful fear art, whatever its form, when it does this, and that amongst the people such art sometimes runs like a rumour and a legend because it makes sense of what life’s brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us, for it is inseparable from a justice at last. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts and honour.”
[John Berger]
“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
[The Shack]
“Tell her something true when all she’s known are lies.”
“Love like your heart has never been broken.”
I was reading an article on family over at the Wrecked For The Ordinary website when I came across this quote again:
But back in Jesus’ age, just as in our own, family is one of the most significant barriers to potential risk-takers who would leave everything for the way of the cross. This might explain why Jesus has some hard things to say about our earthly ties… These earthly allegiances create a myopia that stands in the way of God’s vision and justice, which are larger than tribe, clan or nation.
[Shane Claiborne – The Irresistible Revolution]
Such a timely reminder.
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