This has been a most difficult post to complete.
Perhaps due to the number of quotations I could not bear to lose.
Or because it is based on one meaningful to me for most of my life.
Though it hasn't brought me or anyone I know out of difficult times, it reminds me how to keep from them.
“to meet the night in ways that bring the dawn”[1]
a book title
and poem
a poet reading from his work
sits among us sharing lines
composed for his individual students
their talents encouraged
personalities affirmed
and hardships acknowledged
“to meet the night in ways that bring the dawn”
when circumstances force
dark nights of the soul
I know morning follows evening
"but evil thought and deed
suffering so apparently growing
power subverting greater ideas and causes
turns me under like a wave—flipped
sand-stirred, churned in the break
without surface or boundary"[2]
“. . . it is necessary that [the soul] be placed in emptiness and poverty and desertion on all sides, and be left parched, void, and empty and in darkness.”[3]
to meet the night
do not be caught off guard
in ways that bring the dawn
be assured of its passing
persevere toward and welcome solution
“Moses drew near to the thick darkness
where God was.”[4]
[1] To Meet the Night in Ways that Bring the Dawn, Ross L. Mooney
[2] “Ignorance Is Not Innocence,” Jennifer Elliott Jackson
[3] The Dark Night of the Soul,
[4] Exodus
1 comment:
It is true that we often find ourselves in the wilderness wanderings of life. In those periods of life, hope draws us to the dawn; however, the heart struggles in the darkness.
It is only after the darkness that the fullness of dawn can be experienced. Psalm 30:5 "Weeping may linger for the night, but joy comes with the morning". It is only when we realize our vulnerability that we can truly experience joy and the new day.
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