Weekly Inspiration (1/11/23)

Amid the darkness of our unknowing, God prepares our salvation. That salvation is here, now, no matter how dim and hopeless it may seem, as God’s enfleshed and glorified Word seeks to be born anew in each of us. God will provide. Behold the Lamb of God, and see how the darkness has begun its promised retreat. 

-Br. Sean Glenn 

Society of Saint John the Evangelist 

Poem of the Week

Nathanael asked him, 
         “Where did you get to know me?” 
         Jesus answered, 
         “I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.”
                                  —John 1.48

The Beloved sees you. Knows you.
Inner you. Soul you.
Not the faults and failures,
nor your alibis,
not the gold and silver medals,
not what you or others 
think of you,
but the soul inside the story,
the heart beneath the wounds,
what God created
and has always loved,
the Thou of you.

Seen without judgment,
known without blame,
named, beloved, treasured—
welcome it. 

You can stop pretending.
Let yourself become 
the one God knows.  

-Steve Garnass-Holmes