good night

black world

dark yet full

full of piercing Light

you aren't as dark

dark as a night of faith

that bears the Spark

for the Christian herald

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -To speak in the name of God, to pretend to know his ways, both in daily life and history, is to surrender to ideology.

  -One does not capture truth; it leaves only its feathers behind in our descriptions.

  -"They love God," Eckhart says, "the  way a peasant loves his cow, for the butter and cheese it produces."

  -This God who created Adam in order to be glorified bores me.  There are too many people preoccupied with what it all means; you are the meaning and the way.

  -Life bears its reasons within itself.  When it looks for them in ideas, it's a  sign of weakness.  So many people today no longer listen to the Word, and hence can't go out to meet it, because they're in poor health.  They're preoccupied with the meaning of life instead of living in a way that would give it meaning.

  -"The act of belief does not terminate in what can be expressed," Aquinas says, "but in the thing itself."