In Contemplation of Seeking

….contemplation is simply the “experience” …. of God in a luminous darkness which is the perfection of faith illuminating our inmost self….. a flash of the lightning of divinity piercing the darkness of nothingness and sin. Not something general and abstract, but something, on the contrary, as concrete, particular, and “existential” as it can possibly be. It is the confrontation of man with his God…    Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation

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In my darkness I seek you

through deep caverns I run;

my dying flesh yearns for

your fierce, piercing love.

Through darkness I see

you’re glowing so bright,

but always receding,

deeper than night.

I fear that I’ll falter,

betrayed by frail will

when softly you whisper

“my child, just be still.”

(3 Dec. 2013)