Sweet Darkness
We’re taught that what’s most of value in life is what we can explain, that which can be illuminated by the daylight, and which we can see and know. But the shadows and darkness have gifts too - gifts of belonging, and gifts of freedom, and a way of teaching us what to give up in order to take up the one life that is our own.
What if we approached the non-obvious not as something to run from, but as a doorway into a life beyond? Can we honour the underneath and the behind and the dark and what cannot be put into words?
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Here's our source for this week:
Sweet Darkness
the world is tired also.
no part of the world can find you.
where the night has eyes
to recognise its own.
you are not beyond love.
tonight.
further than you can see.
The world was made to be free in.
except the one to which you belong.
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
that does not bring you alive