bright-light

You are bright-light

and yellow bar of splash

criss-crossing the universe

shooting across my heart:

Light emitting light

to sun and moon

and stars of galaxies unknown

making darkness light

to play away the night

You sing of love and mercy

understanding-care

for us who bedevil your might

providing ropes for safety

and ladders that we might climb;

laying highways straight on bent paths

and paving them with care

setting food on the waysides

setting tables lush and fare

You are marvelous daystar-You

natural life devoid of death

So I run running-run

where You trod, plod and sod

following your call

ready, abandoning all

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -Spiritual life...is possible only because of not-knowing.  The mentality that presents faith as natural betrays it while pretending to serve it.  That's why a rigid faith is merely flight from oneself and overcompensation.

  -Believers almost always imagine that faith means certitude.

  -Learn to recognize the faith that reveals a secret despair.

  -For me the absence of doubt would be disturbing.

  -I'm speaking of an active doubt that hunts out prejudices and every kind of idolatry, an ongoing discovery that grows stronger by overcoming all obstacles.

  -To hesitate, to change ones mind, to make mistakes, these are proofs of honesty.

  -We rush past questions in order to avoid anxiety.

  -...in order to forget, one first must know.