Warmth

The sun illumines what it will.

In winter months, late-afternoon sunshine streams through lakeside windows, warming more than the interior of our house.  It softens everything, melting human responses to current challenges, affirming greater realities.  This kind of warmth is real and deep.  It is felt and known.

"When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God. Truly they do; for they are all one in God, and where God is, there are they also. Where the sun is, thither also are directed all its rays. Try to understand what this means." 

–St. John of Kronstadt