I remember waking up, looking around and seeing all this strange equipment, then I noticed that it was all attached to me!

 

"See, darkness covers the earthand thick darkness is over the peoples,but the Lord rises upon youand his glory appears over you." -Isaiah 60:1-2

 

Like people involved in a centuries-long project of cathedral building, we can pour all our energy into building something magnificent for the Lord.

 

“Surely I know of no better place to walk, to think, to pray.”

 

As the sky was filled with dancing light from one mountain-rimmed horizon to the other, we shouted out thanks to the Lord and asked him to “do another one.”

 

Bearing my suffering consciously and willingly became a way to give myself and my love to the Lord.