Dearly Beloved,
Grace and Peace to you.
* Just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the
heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on
him. *
—Mark 1.10
Underwater it's quiet.
Deep in God you hear your heart beat
and the Great Silence of the universe.
Only when you come up
do you hear the roar of the world.
Bring the silence with you.
God's waters break,
the heavens' womb opens
and you emerge into a wound
torn more than the waters.
Only the divine silence
overcomes the world's noise.
The Spirit, dove of listening,
descends, and bears you gently
through this torn, raging world.
“The realm of heaven has suffered violence,”
Jesus says, “and the violent take it by force.”
But they needn't storm the ramparts
of God's heart torn open,
where we already are.
Life is both an emerging and an entering,
a birthing, from love, into love,
a binding of the wound.
Bring the silence with you.
Deep Blessings,
Steve
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
*Unfolding Light *
www.unfoldinglight.net
*January 7, 2021*
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