Blessed Are You Who Bear the Light - Jan Richardson

[Larry Robinson]

Blessed Are You Who Bear the 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
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