i don’t know where the light comes from / margaret rosenau

Posted January 5, 2023 by Margaret Rosenau in Biodynamic Paradigm, Craniosacral Therapy, Stories 2310

When I teach students about the quantum Midline and the way potency illuminates and glows I often say the words that are the first line of this magical poem I received in my inbox on Christmas morning as part of Nadia Bolz Weber’s Christmas message:

I cannot tell you how the light comes.

I can tell you it is there.

I can tell you it can’t leave your body because your body is still being illuminated by it, even when darkness descends.

Enjoy the full poem.

How the Light Comes

by Jan Richardson

I cannot tell you

how the light comes.

What I know 

is that it is more ancient

than imagining.

That it travels

across an astounding expanse

to reach us.

That it loves

searching out what is hidden, 

what is lost, 

what is forgotten

or in peril 

or in pain.

That is has fondness

for the body,

for finding its way

toward flesh,

for tracing the edges

of form,

for shining forth through an eye,

the hand, 

the heart.

I cannot tell you 

how the light comes,

but that it does.

that it will.

that it works its way 

into the deepest dark

that enfolds you,

though it may seem

long ages in coming

or arrive in a shape you did not foresee.

And so 

may we this day

turn ourselves toward it.

may we lift our faces

to let it find us.

may we bend our bodies

to follow the arc it makes.

may we open more

and open still

to the blessed light

that comes.

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