Sent out

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear: “You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing….

Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in.

Rilke, The Book of Hours I, 59

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