The Abyss

     The Transformative Way

       How dark must the darkness be?

       when I was young and incautious

       I struggled to accept my own nothingness

    and I feared the darkness of the abyss.

             How empty must the womb be?

  I struggle to know why God should

  care, but despite my fear of the darkness

  I know that God does in fact care.  

             How large must the vacuum be?

  in my grown-up fear of the abyss

  I acknowledge my own nothingness

  and I ask for nothing - trusting.  

            How vast must the place be?

  I now wait in a mysterious place that 

  is a vast ‘no-place’ place in silent

            adoration – trusting.