There are just some losses that are unbearable, the loss is so deep. But if we don’t panic, if we don’t panic and walk in the loss, we can see starting to shine out through it, lessons about fragility and love and eternality and wisdom.
–James Finley, Turning to the Mystics podcast

Life isn’t what I’d like it to be.
In so many ways,
it is not the life I want.
Overwhelm comes, goes
and comes back again,
grief  stoically aches,
and just when I think I’ve landed on something solid
the ground shifts and cracks
beneath my feet.

How can it be
that in this place of complicated loss
I am given
the love I always wanted?

I see it now
shining in the darkness,
and the darkness 
will never put it out.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
– John 1:5

Credits and References:
“Candlelight” by Peter Lin. Used with permission.
James Finley’s quote is from Turning to the Mystics Season 8 Julian of Norwich, Episode 1, p 10.
“Light in the Darkness” by Esther Hizsa, 2023
“Wait” by Tom Ek. Used with permission.

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