Lux In Tenebris Lucet: Saturday, December 3
Lux In Tenebris Lucet: Saturday, December 3
Day 6 of our 28-day Advent journey of mini-dispatches to give you pause and light.
One and one-half wandering Jews
Free to wander wherever they choose
Are traveling together
In the Sangre de Christo
The Blood of Christ Mountains of New Mexico
On the last leg of a journey
They started a long time ago
The arc of a love affair
Rainbows in the high desert air
Mountain passes
Slipping into stones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Thinking back to the season before
Looking back through the cracks in the door
Two people were married
The act was outrageous
The bride was contagious
She burned like a bride
These events may have had some effect
On the man with the girl by his side
The arc of a love affair
His hands rolling down her hair
Love like lightning shaking till it moans
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
Hearts and bones
And whoa whoa whoa
She said why?
Why don't we drive through the night
And we'll wake up down in Mexico
Oh I
I don't know nothin' about nothin'
About Mexico
And tell me why
Why won't you love me
For who I am
Where I am
He said
'Cause that's not the way the world is baby
This is how I love you baby
This is how I love you baby
One and one-half wandering Jews
Returned to their natural coasts
To resume old acquaintances
Step out occasionally
And speculate who had been damaged the most
Easy time will determine if these consolations
Will be their reward
The arc of a love affair
Waiting to be restored
You take two bodies and you twirl them into one
Their hearts and their bones
And they won't come undone
Hearts and bones
—Paul Simon, “Hearts and Bones”
“The Heart is a small vessel, but all things are contained in it: God is there, and there also is life and the kingdom, the heavenly cities and the treasures of grace.”
—Dimitri of Rostov
“When we are in the Heart, we are home; when we are not in the Heart, we are homeless.”
—Theophan the Recluse
“If you have a Heart, you can be saved.”
—Abba Pambo
From A Book Of Hours, Saint Andrew’s Abbey