When the night is thick
and you can’t see,
sometimes
you have to close your eyes
to see the light.
Because it’s inside you.
It’s been there forever,
since the beginning of time.
The first “Let there be light”
included yours.
It’s deep down.
Deeper than your breathing,
deeper than your nerve impulses.
If you are in a coma
it’s still there.
It’s tiny, a pinpoint, like a star,
yet it lights up everything around you.
It’s not light for your eyes,
but something else.
You learn to walk by that light,
breathed into you,
and to lighten your world.
Of course you are not the only one.
Together, in the dark,
we are a constellation,
a galaxy of grace.
__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
ww.unfoldinglight.net
Listen to the audio recording:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:08 — 1.6MB)