Photograph: During Christmas services in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Palestine, by the American Colony Jerusalem Photo Department, between 1934 and 1939.
“Your brightness is my darkness.
I know nothing of You and, by myself,
I cannot even imagine how to go about knowing You.
If I imagine You, I am mistaken.
If I understand You, I am deluded.
If I am conscious and certain I know You, I am crazy.
The darkness is enough.”
I know nothing of You and, by myself,
I cannot even imagine how to go about knowing You.
If I imagine You, I am mistaken.
If I understand You, I am deluded.
If I am conscious and certain I know You, I am crazy.
The darkness is enough.”
—Thomas Merton, prayer before midnight mass at Christmas, 1941.
darkness *
ReplyDeleteyour
darkness
as a flower
blooms _
across the years
and
days of noon _
flowers
of the nights array
eclipse
the brightness
of the
day _
happy blessings --------------
thanks, bob. very sweet poem.
Deletehappy new year!