An invitation for advent…

“

Welcome, stranger. Come in. Lay down.

Let us remove this burden of light that you have carried around for too long.

It is not the darkness that has blinded you.

But now, free from the glare,

you can let your eyes adjust.

Now, sheltered from all that knowing,

you can sit within the shadows’ strange confering.

Together we will light a candle -

not to vanquish the dark,

but to further articulate it.

Here may you find the wisdom of winter.

Here may you unlearn the folly of a life

that always climbs the mountain,

that believes in accumulation,

that does not join God as she too lies fallow -

as she too opens herself

to absence.

”

Gideon Heugh

Darkling; An Advent Journey: published 2022.

Seeing in the dark.