Over the horizon you came, to put darkness to death
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From Luke’s Journal March 2026 | Vol. 31 No. 1 | God at the Bedside
You saw him in the light
You saw her in the darkness
You saw us in the shifting
Shadowlands, of light half dying
Half grieving and of darkness
Creeping like a snake along.
You saw us in the murky, muddy
Greyness, in an opaque world
Where no light penetrates
And darkness can never
Understand.
You are shimmering light
In the darkness of
This deceiving,
Baleful world.
You are the light,
Which fails to be
Extinguished by
The darkness which
Hides in deepest night.
Over the horizon you came
To put darkness to death
What we have done,
What was done to us,
You see everything,
You see everyone,
The good & evil,
Every kindness &
Each vengeful plan,
Evidence under the sun.
You have absorbed our
Darkness upon yourself,
In your hour of darkness.
You broke through ours …
Bestowing sacred medicine
More ancient than silmaril light ~
You took the death of our death
And ended all our terrifying nights.
Anonymous
The writer lives in the Hunter and is married to a midwife. He has worked in Education and Chaplaincy and is still involved in Pastoral Care. He grew up as a devout Roman Catholic until his unexpected conversion at 21. He attends an evangelical Presbyterian church in Newcastle.
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