Sometimes, the heart is incapable of filling futher. It can’t even break, it’s so full. The Quakers, when things are very hard, hold you in the light. And for each of us, ‘the light’ may be different. But this week, I am trying hard to hold the many victims of the Aurora tragedy in the light of comfort.

I am holding each of the children, the adults and even the sad young man who made it all happen in light. I am holding the familes in light. I am holding a country that places ‘full gun rights’ as a national priority in the light. And I am breathing in grief, trying hard to transmute that leaden feeling in to light. It’s not always working. But I’m trying. I’m still trying…..