HeyJaredUnfolding Light
Unfolding Light is a daily reflection (weekdays) by Steve Garnaas-Holmes rooted in a contemplative, Creation-centered, justice-oriented spirituality.
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Wounded (opens the original)
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Gentle One, you have wounded me. Your grace has pierced my armor. Your truth has clawed through my lies and illusions. Your love has shattered my defenses. The talons of your mercy have cut through all my bitterness to the heart of my anger and fear. Your forgiveness has crushed my shame. Your suffering love has torn my heart. The little self I worked so hard to create lies faint, breathing shallow. I am helpless before you. I bleed with your blood. Pierced by your light, I am filled with your l
By what authority (opens the original)
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The elders said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” —Matthew 21.23 Where does the meadowlark get its song? How dare the daffodil blossom when snow is still on the ground? What makes the bee think it can fly? Who told the moon to tease us so, to hide her face and then come back, to pull at us like that? And you, who said you can be as lovely as you are? Hell’s deputies will accost you. The ignorant, marionettes of their fear, demand to know who’s pull
Equinox (opens the original)
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The poor sun, knowing only its own brightness, has never seen shade, never witnessed darkness, knows nothing of night and its gentle cloak, doesn’t know how an object, an apple, say, or a face, curves into shadow and how the shadow makes it so lovely, makes it deep and round, blessed by the shape of its disappearing, sweetened by loss, inviting an arm around its other side. __________________ Steve Garnaas-Holmes Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net Listen to the audio recording:
Foggy goggles (opens the original)
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In the market they give you these goggles you don’t even realize you’ve got. They’re so you buy stuff and fit in. They give you the opposite of x-ray vision. They’re fogged up and chintzy, so the surface of everything is glitzed and shiny but you can’t see beneath. You can see how someone dresses but not how they feel. You can see something’s wrong with someone but nothing else. You can’t see the prophet in the woman at the well. You can’t see God sitting there, patiently, with Joseph in Pharaoh
Gallery (opens the original)
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Worship is God’s art gallery. She sets out a few beautiful things to watch us come in our glory. We look at the beautiful things but God gazes at us. We cover ourselves under the veil of “I’m not good enough,” or the shroud of “I’m not as bad as some,” but God lifts them both alike from us, and gazes at us as we truly are, God’s works of art, and delights. __________________ Steve Garnaas-Holmes Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net Listen to the audio recording:
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