The Eclipse

Today’s Focail do a Chara

The solar blink.

It is always a good idea to see things as they are before they change.

Savor the masterworks, the bird songs, the white round belly of the chickadee, the green and gold dogwood leaves reflecting the afternoon sun, the gray and white patterns of light at your feet, the scent of woods burning and decaying, the curled brown leaf dropped into my hand from the translucent green canopy above.

This cosmic wink,

flash of darkness,

returns you to your moment of ultimate faith.

To achieve wholeness you must embrace the shadows as well as the light,

then open your eyes to that which you cannot see.

Behold the revelation

like light shadows on the treetops.

In the darkness is a lingering of the holy.

The earth, the sun, and the moon remind you in this moment that you are a speck of cosmic dust in a great and mysterious universe held together with a force of love.

Prepare to receive its shimmer; love always appears from the darkness.

© Christine Salkin Davis, 2017

Originally published at christinesdavisphd.blogspot.com on August 21, 2017.