Verses

What we need is the gift of God

which makes us able to find in ourselves

not just oursleves but Him;

and then our nothingness becomes His all.

This is not possible without the liberation

effected by compunction and humility.

It requires not talent,

not mere insight,

but sorrow,

pouring itself out

in love and trust.

Painting by N.C. Wyeth, “The Prodigal.”

This was an anchor to my work with teenagers and their parents. N.C. Wyeth, "The Prodigal."

And God said,

‘Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night;

and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.’

And it was so.

God made the two great lights—

the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night

—and the stars.

God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth,

to rule over the day and over the night,

and to separate the light from the darkness.

And God saw that it was good.

And there was evening and there was morning,

the fourth day.

Léon Spilliaert, Seascape with Setting Sun