Light: Monday
After air, light is the dimension of our experience of the natural world that is the most intangible. It’s invisible, but without it we can’t see anything. It’s like God: God is invisible, but without God we can’t see anything or relate to anything. Without God, we have no being.
– Br. Keith Nelson, SSJE
Way of Love: Daily Practice
Read The Third Song of Isaiah (BCP 87). Sit silently. Invite God to speak through this reading.
Share your experience in the comments below
We cannot see without darkness and light. Shadows define the shape that light helps us see. Pure light is blinding; just as pure darkness renders us blind.
Love this observation! So accurate!
You have made my darkness bright. I’t’s as if we need one to
experience the other. To simply trust that out of one will come the other.
How do I get to the Third Song of Isaiah? What does BCP mean?
Thank you for the question, as others have also posed the same one, and we are grateful to learn areas where we may be more thorough in explanations in future offerings.
“BCP” is an abbreviation for the Book of Common Prayer, the shared prayer and office book of the Episcopal Church (every church in the Anglican Communion uses some version of the BCP).
Each Monday in Lent – the “Learn” day on our Way of Love cycle – we will point readers to a text to study, which is found in the Book of Common Prayer.
This week, we selected the Third Song of Isaiah, which is located among the readings for Morning Prayer, in this case on page 87 of the book (the number in parentheses each week will indicate the page of the BCP on which you can find the text). This week’s prayer / song comes from the book of Isaiah (ch. 60, vs. 1-3; 11; 14; 18-19). And since it’s the third song that occurs in that biblical book, it’s commonly called “The Third Song of Isaiah.”