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on January 28, 2026

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Darkness becomes radiant

With His light

Sadness brightens
With His Joy

Peace descends
Where it is not

He knocks
And the closed door
Is opened

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ALEPH: Silence of the Beginning

Rocket Man, Starman, Life On Mars, I Am I said. Songs of my youth. Songs of identity, that interior aspect of me which reaches for the beyond. I am captivated by Voyager 1, the probe sent into space on September 5, 1977, five years to the day after I entered religious life and on the very day I returned to the community, having been away for more than a year. Back then I had no knowledge of Voyager but we have somehow been travelling together these 40 years. There are journeys and journeys, I like to say. For every journey we undertake there is a deeper, spiritual significance that we are not always aware of. I have been a voyager, a wanderer pilgrim in spirit all my life – making journeys of significance and mostly journeying into the interior space of who I am; who I am in relation to others and mostly who I am in relation to God. My Mother called me Siddhartha, the nomad. Voyager 1 has become a kind of teacher to me, a teacher of what is beyond. The she...

SON OF GERA When a son of Gera Flings verbal dirt and stones Into my sorrow And I am tempted To cut him off for good I am reminded That God may have bid him Do it As He did the original To King David Perhaps I have offended Neglected him And have need of repentance I am reminded too That He has bid another To make my spirits soar With laughter And the Hand that hurts Is the Hand that heals ©Huruma Eamonn Monson

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