"Exploration into God is exploration into darkness, into the heart of darkness. Yes, to be sure, God is light. He is the light by which all light is light. In the words of the psalm, "In your light we see light." Yet great mystics of the Christian tradition speak of the darkness in which the light is known, a darkness inextricably connected to the cross. At the heart of darkness, the light of the world is dying on a cross, and the longest stride of soul is to see in this a strange glory . . . . The cross is not the eclipse of that glory but its shining forth, its epiphany." - Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Death on a Friday Afternoon
Hard to believe I started this post five days ago, immediately after finishing my last one. I've read more since then, just haven't blogged more.
My agenda this morning would be to finish this post right now, and move on to the dream that I had about the importance of subjugating our agendas to God's will so we can receive the gifts he greatly desires for us. Instead I am going to come back to these thoughts later, and this morning join in a global novena for peace. I think I'm going to find that the two things are related.
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