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July 2009 
Good Friday/Easter
Posted on Mar 21st, 2008
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Ron
Ron
The body of Jesus, broken on the cross, offers an image of the primal matter. It is the body of a criminal abandoned by his intimates, tortured and given a slow, shameful death. Since the situation is beyond human repair, the corpse is taken down and given to the rock of the tomb where eternity may do what it will. And women come to bathe and anoint the body: their care for the broken corpse softens the dark a little, and after three days of inert death, a door opens. When the new time appears, we find that the dark does not disappear all at once and forever. Compassion wakes us to our labors. Like Dante with his guide, we leave Hell to enter Purgatory, the place where burdens are taken on for the sake of love.
-John Tarrant
The Light Inside the Dark
-John Tarrant
The Light Inside the Dark
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Yes, this resonates with me. We think once the darkest of our “dark night” is over, that the light will appear. Often it is not that way. Or, if the light does come, it fades, and we are left to enter “the place where burdens are taken on for the sake of love.” They say that life is an illusion. I think both ends of the spectrum, black and white, are illusionary - but they are stark and they grab our attention, so we are drawn to them to the detriment of all the colors in between. Gray is a marriage of these colors. I very often have to remind myself of that, when I hunger for the light, or get overwhelmed by the dark.
Namaste Ron.