December 1, 2014 A prayer starter for today: A year ago I found this wonderful poem by Jessica Powers and attached it to the back of the prayer card that I drew for Advent (My profile picture and attached here). My painting isn’t so much art but an image for contemplation. I hope you will spend some quiet time in “Mary-darkness today as a way to enter more fully into Advent. I live my Advent in the womb of Mary And on one night when a great star swings free From its high mooring and walks down the sky To be the dot above the Christus i, I shall be born of her by blessed grace. I wait in Mary-darkness, faith’s walled place, With hope’s expectance of nativity. I knew for long she carried me and fed me, Guarded and loved me, though I could not see, But only now, with inward jubilee, I come upon earth’s most amazing knowledge: Someone is hidden in this dark with me. Source: “In Mary-Darkness” from The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, edited by Regina Siegfried, ASC, and Robert F. Morneau. Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1989.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:14:57 +0000
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