“God knows what it is to feel abandoned by God.

God is with you in that terrible aloneness.

Your longing is God.

Nothing, not even the sense that God has abandoned you,

can separate you from God.

…

And that cross, that tomb, because God is in it,

is unable to be final or complete…”

—excerpts from Steve Garnaas-Holmes’ Unfolding Light meditation, “Eli, Eli”

YHWH, forgive our lack of imagination.

The Word slips into the abyss. It will not return empty.