blessing the darkness

Some people might say that we find God only when we need Him. Simple words, but true. It’s like looking for the light switch in a dark room. No one goes searching for it until the sunlight has gone. Similarly, darkness can impel our search for God.

I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night – but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.

Psalm 139:11-12

Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last survivor pulled from the wreckage after the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. Genelle tells the story about flirting with faith but choosing to live without it. Then, on September 11, her world fell apart and she found herself in complete darkness, buried alive under a mountain of rubble.

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speak what is true

Here’s my heart Lord
Here’s my heart Lord
Here’s my heart Lord
Speak what is true

‘Cause I am found, I am Yours
I am loved, I’m made pure
I have life, I can breathe
I am healed, I am free

Here’s my heart Lord
Here’s my heart Lord
Here’s my heart Lord
Speak what is true

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show yourself.

Dancing through my head….(don’t miss clicking this video.)

“You come in a still small voice.”

“You say, “Let their be light,”

and there is light

and

light shines in the darkness.”

hugs n’ blessings to all the light in the world breaking through the darkness!

Brother Isaiah is a member of The Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal which was founded in 1987, in Bronx, NY, to work with the poor and to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.