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For a moment;
we hold our collective breath;
wondering what hope will be revealed.
HilaryC

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Pull the drapery back
Off of the art work none of us commissioned
But for which all of us are paying.

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Apocalypse rips away our illusions, tears
and shreds them, until all that is left
is the reality that has been here all along.

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The pandemic has laid it all bare.

The racism. The obscenity of riches next door to hunger.

How do we now learn to care?

dm

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What a hunger to be seen
To be known.
What a privilege
To remove the veil.

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Uncovering    Vulnerable           And finally: whole 

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Uncovering    Vulnerable           And finally: whole 

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Seeds I pressed gently into a purple pot for the porch /
Unveil the varied colors of my secret heart, /
Rooted in the rich, decaying, suffering soil of my wandering path.
-Mark S. Nielsen

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As the bride approaches her husband-to-be, before the altar, so she lifts her veil.
As the bride, the church, is unveiled, will her Bridegroom be pleased with her?

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I often wonder what could have been if I’d listened differently when the teacher said “I hope you can dance, one day, like David.”

- Still not naked before the Lord.

BWH

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Cherubim veiling
Their faces, while the Presence
Unveils in Jesus

WDRplus

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sounds to me like "vulnerable"
I hid behind the veil for so long, for too long.
It's time to be real, to my own eyes and to yours:
Welcome to the naked me.
GM

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what would it be like to be unveiled /
to be truly known /
to be seen

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Healing requires honesty
Yours. Mine. Ours.
Let everything that shrouds the truth be lifted.

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hundreds of thousands of candles bobbing on reflective waters/
real bodies remembered, named, honored/
a veil finally torn--collective grief acknowledged, held