Jan. 25, 2023

January 25, 2023

Beloveds,

During last Sunday’s service I had a poem for which we didn’t have time, so I am sharing it here, as promised. Parallel to my sermon’s message that dark and light are both important parts of life, each holding gifts and opportunities for us, this poem speaks (to me, anyway) of the intermingled realities of relationship and loss, which together render us “empty and full at once”.

HOLES
by Lillian Morrison

Strangest of gaps
their goneness-
mother, father, loved friends

the black holes
of the astronomer
are not more mysterious

this kind of hole
will not be filled
with candle flames
or even a thousand thoughts

the hole is inside us
it brims over
is empty and full at once.

Yours in the dark and the light, in love and in loss,

Rev. Denise
RevDenise@gnuuc.org