Good morning…
Last night was the final New Moon of the year. Dark. Dark. Dark. For three straight nights we experience great darkness.
Tomorrow night is the winter solstice, marking the exact moment when half of Earth is tilted the farthest away from the sun. This God-ordered, natural phenomenon creates the shortest day, the day with the least amount of sunlight, and the longest night, the night with the most darkness. This winter solstice weekend, the Ursid meteor shower peaks, offering a chance to see shooting stars, sudden and surprising.
What a perfect moment to savor the power of this short poem.
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TO KNOW THE DARK by Wendell Berry
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
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“Go dark,” says Wendell. “Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings.”
“Go dark,” says the Bible. “The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light, And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death, Upon them a Light dawned” (Matthew 4:16, NASB).
This weekend, might we go outside and join the people who were sitting in darkness, sitting in the land and shadow of death? Upon them a great Light dawned.
As we sit still, might we also experience the dark blooming and singing, blooming and singing with the dawning Light?
…Sue…
