Mar 2014
Twelve are the months of darkness:
twelve the months of perennial winter,
in this world immersed
in the arctic of the Spirit;
Forty are the days of penance,
forty of fasting, yet our torment lasts:
is mortal sin washed?
of the heart, not carne?
Light, here we have, but
Light is what we need, lost our lives
frozen and dark,
in the penumbra of the Spirit.
And grace comes knocking -
but when David rises over darkness
we are with Saul, comes
ben-Joseph, we are with David.
twelve the months of perennial winter,
in this world immersed
in the arctic of the Spirit;
Forty are the days of penance,
forty of fasting, yet our torment lasts:
is mortal sin washed?
of the heart, not carne?
Light, here we have, but
Light is what we need, lost our lives
frozen and dark,
in the penumbra of the Spirit.
And grace comes knocking -
but when David rises over darkness
we are with Saul, comes
ben-Joseph, we are with David.
Thoughts on Lent: And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast (Matthew 9:15, KJ Bible)
