Grief & Beauty
Grief then is not something to run from, but to welcome as part of the living, and being human in the tense and tender world. Grief is the posture, the honor it is to bear with, to bear witness to all that still suffers. And it is the invitation to behold the new life and wholeness that God has been long laboring for with groans too deep for words.
The Unexpected Blessings of a Spiritual Desert
I was struck that God hovers over the vacant void, bringing order and creativity and beauty out of seeming emptiness, of chaos.
The space is necessary before the creating.
The crossing, dependent upon the dryness.
The separation, before birthing.