Blessed Are You
Ephesians 5:8 For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!
Blessed are you
who bear the light
in unbearable times, who testify
to its endurance
amid the unendurable, who bear witness
to its persistence
when everything seems in shadow
and grief.
Blessed are you in whom
the light lives,
in whom
the brightness blazes— your heart
a chapel,
an altar where
in the deepest night can be seen
the fire that
shines forth in you
in unaccountable faith, in stubborn hope,
in love that illumines every broken thing it finds.
Jan Richardson
Eternal Light, Lord Jesus, may Your life and Your heart shine within and from us so that we may bless this world. Amen.