The Winter Light: A Meditation on The Solstice
The Lights of Winter: Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me. May I receive your Light
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar. May You Light my path
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways. May Your Light guide my steps
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely. May Rhema Light fall from my lips5
You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me. Your hand is Light
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain. We cannot know where the Light comes from but we know that it comes
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence? You are Light
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. Your Light permeates all
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast. Your Light knows the WAY
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the Light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you. For you shine Light through what is darkness
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb You placed Your Light within me.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well. I know that we are One in the Light
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. You formed me with Light although I am flesh
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be. My days are written in the flames of your LIght
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you. Your Light will never depart from me for
all eternity
The Hour of Waiting
Stop the spinning wheel and pause
This still moment between
The dream and the cause
When the Winter opaque dims the sheen
Of the effervescent roses in the vase.
There is no time
Between my breath
In the stillness echo’s the wind chime
When white overcomes death
Letting go the cluttered mind
I pause in the darkness
I embrace the Light
Allowing in all the colors of Oneness
The rays of illuminated sight
Shining above, below, behind the stillness
The Alaf and the Zod
Within and upon this night
In my heart the gift you hold
This inner sight sees only Light
As I chose Your Hand for my abode
I ponder the seeds I shall plant
Seeing in the harvest of deepest desire
The dreams and visions Rhema chants
Bringing in the green within the mire
Without the mud the root can’t
The Light before me
The Light behind me
The Light all around me
The Light before you
The Light behind you
The Light all around you
The Light before us
The Light behind us
The Light all around us.
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