Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
It seems every time I come across Cohen's "Anthem," I am comforted all over again by his There is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in.
This morning, without conscious thought of the "Anthem," out of the blue came There is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets out.
Of course I had to ponder that.
It comforted me so much more when I realized that the light has ever been within us, waiting to be let out. It shines shuttered within but we know it not. It is only by releasing our light so it may be shared by and with others that we know our light does shine.
The light, like all the gifts that we are blessed with before conception...patience, kindness, peace, love, joy...was never ours to keep sheltered. They are, in fact, useless if we don't share them...else how will we know they are ours?...that we have them deep within us even as we pray God to gift us with any one or all of them?
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Can't you just feel God grinning?
Thank you.
It comforted me so much more when I realized that the light has ever been within us, waiting to be let out. It shines shuttered within but we know it not. It is only by releasing our light so it may be shared by and with others that we know our light does shine.
The light, like all the gifts that we are blessed with before conception...patience, kindness, peace, love, joy...was never ours to keep sheltered. They are, in fact, useless if we don't share them...else how will we know they are ours?...that we have them deep within us even as we pray God to gift us with any one or all of them?
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Can't you just feel God grinning?
Thank you.
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