Enjoyment of the World as a Refusal to Despair.

There are moments, and places, when time and place come together, and the world is transfigured. Yesterday had such a time, at such a place. Light and landscape, trees and wheat, mountain shadows beneath clouded skies, viewed through old gates now permanently open, under a canopy of leaves turning from summer to autumn.

 

At such moments of longing and the promise of fulfilment, our inner world is also transfigured - into hope, and the refusal of despair.

 

“Your enjoyment of the world is never right till every morning you awake in Heaven; see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth and the air as celestial joys; having such a reverend esteem of all..."     Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations.

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[Jason Goroncy]

'Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

We asked for signs
The signs were sent'.

– Mr Cohen