WORD

Photo by Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash. Image description: the night sky as seen from Rocky Mountain National Park. Stars cover the sky over a background of deep purples and blues.

A flood of memories of the oblivion

before the void contracted into creation,

gravity from below and brooding holiness

bearing down together until there was light;

in the darkness of that night it appeared

as the radiance of a thousand angels.

Rosalind C. Hughes

Rosalind C Hughes has lived on three continents and now makes her home near Cleveland, Ohio. She became a US citizen and an Episcopal priest on opposite shoulders of a very busy weekend in January 2012. She is active in gospel-grounded gun violence prevention conversations, as reflected in her latest book, Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence.

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