<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xdj266r x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">How The Light Comes</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">I cannot tell you</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">how the light comes.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">What I know</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">is <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""></a></span>that it is more ancient</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">than imagining.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">That it travels</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">across an astounding expanse</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to reach us.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">That it loves</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">searching out</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">what is hidden</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">what is lost</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">what is forgotten</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">or in peril</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">or in pain.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">That it has a fondness</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">for the body</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">for finding its way</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">toward flesh</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">for tracing the edges</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">of form</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">for shining forth</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">through the eye,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">the hand,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">the heart.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">I cannot tell you</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">how the light comes,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">but that it does.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">That it will.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">That it works its way</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">into the deepest dark</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">that enfolds you,</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">though it may seem</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">long ages in coming</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">or arrive in a shape</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">you did not foresee.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">And so</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">may we this day</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">turn ourselves toward it.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">May we lift our faces</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to let it find us.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">May we bend our bodies</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to follow the arc it makes.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">May we open</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and open more</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">and open still</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">to the blessed light</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class="">that comes.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Jan Richardson</div></div></div></body></html>