January 11, 2007



The day began with a reading of a resurrection appearance from the 6th chapter of John…Jesus walking by night in the storm to the boat: He crosses the sea to be with those who follow him: the power of allegory. How the Gospel written “from above” though as allegory becomes “from below” so accessible, so meaningful, and moving, so hard-and-fast real. Jesus, then, in these post resurrection times (that is, the same dispensation as the disciples in the boat) is not our friend who is with us as an unmistakable companion, but rather one who is a vague but sure presence who appears to us as an embodied intuition… to me in the dark silence of the pre-dawns, to all of us, despite Nietzsche, when 2 or 3 are gathered in his name.
My faith
is a great weight
hung on a small wire
as does a spider
hang her baby on a thin web.
…just a thin vein with blood pushing back and forth in it
and some love.
(Anne Sexton)