How are you dealing with the shifting of the light of the day?

Now when I drive to work the sun is sharply in my face with a clarity that blinds and when I drive home I can be witness to a marvel of twilight or the deep darkness of early evening. The rhythm of the light of the day can be a resource to us to ground in our ups and downs of so many events that we can’t control like the increasing numbers of the pandemic or the outcome of the politics.

Let the rhythm of the morning and evening light be a centering place for you and ritualize how you might pause in the light of morning or evening. You can do it when you step out of your home’s door and leave your car door before entering your home. Take three deep breathes. Another morning will come and another night will descend upon us.

“In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success but rather on how much we have loved” John of the Cross

O God whose face is a thousand colors
Look upon us in this twilight hour, and color our faces with the radiance of your love.
As the light of the sun fades away, light the lamps of our hearts that we may see one another more clearly. Let the incense of our gratitude rise as our hearts become full of light and love. May the work that we bring with us into this hour fall away from our minds as we enter another mystical hour of your grace. Amen.(adapted from Macrina Wiederkehr)

May the light settle you into yourself so that you can let the love that surrounds you saturate your heart and your whole being.

Michelle