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Opening prayer:
“May the dark and light surround us, filling us with holy wisdom, loving kindness, and unabated hope.”
Music: “Nature” Sweet Honey in the Rock”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8miDDEb8I
Reading I: “. . .darkness and lightness have been rooted in our physical, emotional, social, and spiritual lives, it is the spiritual impact of darkness on our lives and how we suffer—with and in it—that this book addresses.”
Readings and prayers from Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Reading II: How can we meet darkness as itself, alone, not as an opposition to the light we long for? What is darkness without an attention to light or our longing for light? When I ask questions like these, suddenly there are no words. Darkness without talking about light makes darkness inconceivable to many. It is much like the darkness of death. We do not know death any more than the darkness we came from.
Reading III: But we speak of a darkness that is not there—it doesn’t really exist except in our perception. Still, there is this experience of what we call darkness that is so palpable we run from it, hide in it, and often seek ways to annihilate it. We speak of light, but we are not sure of light in the same way that we are not sure of darkness.” How could darkness be both certain and not, seen and unseen? What is this darkness without light that affects our relationship to the earth and to each other?
Closing prayer: Holy One, “Our soul needs dark experiences to ascend, to evolve into a consciousness of vastness in every moment.” May we surrender to the darkness and the light.
Music: “Come Hope” by Amanda Udis-Kessler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcOMCej9VXs
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