Archive - Towards Light

Must do… Can’t do… Wish I… If she… Why can’t… How can I face what I must face tomorrow? How can I bear this sadness and this fear? Child, look to me…

Mar 30 •

The Man Born Blind (II)

When you had longed for sight, you never dreamed that there’d be things you’d wish you hadn’t seen. Your mother’s face was crumpled like a child’s.

Mar 9 •

September 2024

Slumped on the ground here in this wilderness, head pounding hard, you close your eyes at last and wonder how you got here, how the fast unravelling of…

Sep 1, 2024 •

July 2024

After Robert Frost

Jul 28, 2024 •

May 2024

To see: a noticing of me although I’m one of many vying for your time; a recognition of the twists and turns that brought me here; a strong hand taking…

May 19, 2024 •

March 2024

By the Sheep Gate (II)

How to make sense of all the years before he took your hand and pulled you to your feet? The helplessness you felt there in the dust with legs that…

Mar 24, 2024 •

After Feeding the Five Thousand

You gather up the fragments which remain that none be lost: the things we could have been (quite what, who knows, but something more than this…

Mar 3, 2024 •

September 2023

How often can a heart break and survive? Ask Leah, the unbeautiful, unloved, or Jacob, holding his son’s bloodstained coat, or Joseph, friendless in a…

Sep 10, 2023 •

August 2023

Ache so deep within. Bright red blood. My body mourns the loss of something good that could have been (but wasn’t) and the life I could have had, where…

Aug 27, 2023 •

The olives would be ripe for picking now and someone’s hand would pluck them from their stems as she had hoped to do and carry them across her sunlit…

Aug 6, 2023 •

July 2023

Mary of Bethany

Perhaps it wasn’t easy for her either. Perhaps she felt the urgent tug her sleeve as much as Martha did and had to fight for stillness as she sat there…

Jul 9, 2023 •

March 2023

The Shunammite Woman

All is well. Through those long years of arms that ache to hold a child as others do, all is well. All is well— oh yes, how well!

Mar 5, 2023 •

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