Darkness and Light Day One

"There is in God, some say, 
a deep but dazzling darkness" Henry Vaughan

A word to a young girl but half understood, 
the hovering wings of the shadow of God, 
The light of the world and a sword that shall pierce
from her deep dark womb.
 
A birth hardly noticed some way from her home, 
A sign in the dark fro the outcast who roam, 
The faintest of lights from the newest of stars
In the deep dark cave.
 
The cold wind of Friday extinguished that light, 
Folk frieved that they sank once again in their plight, 
His cry pierced the night and they find he is gone
From the deep dark tomb. 
 
The lanterns of Christmas may point to that star, 
Yet spaces between make us still journey far, 
Inviting our trust in the that long dazzling fall
Into God's deep dark.

Jim Cotter. From 'Prayer in the Day: a book of mysteries'

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