“To this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over the hearts of the children of Israel, but whenever a person turns to the Lord the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Lord who is the Spirit…For God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to bring to light the knowledge of the glory of God…”—2 Corinthians 3:15-18, 4:6 (Thursday, Year A, Tenth Week in Ordinary Time from the Daily Roman Missal)
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A veil was on the earth, low-cover cloud and feeling of rain that would or wouldn’t fall. Truth he didn’t know. Future was uncertain, and though he sensed, he could not see.
In the cover, under veil, he read from Morning Missal in receive of the Word of God. In the word, message spoke—veil of confounding, confusion and obscurance; all removed by Light of the Lord and Spirit.
“Let light sine out of the darkness,” and so it lived under morning veil; sun’s breaking through—warmth and light in morning-east. From a blindness, he could see.
Eyes raised from page to find and see of Anna before window’s light: sun upon her shoulders, long fall of hair in catch and blending with the rays.
Anna turned in stand, love-gentle’s smile quiet speaking in return. To smile and sight, he swooned and tremored in the witness; her shine of heart, light of face, smile-commune of knowledge and glory spoken spirit-to-spirit in bless of presence, life, and moment-immanence.
He gazed upon her unveiled face, natural-state of Creation’s make: unmade, unadorned—beauty still—body dressed in yellow cover. He felt the power—love-presence and draw—transforming in same to unveil and Spirit, glory to glory, as light and love of his soul expressed in raising forths in show.
Anna witnessed, his unveil of self and spirit drawing a greater in her smile and spirit of her eyes. Quiet, still, Anna waited in stand and cast of the light in rays through window’s frame.
He rose. He moved. He embraced her in the light.
Yellow lifted.
Veil removed.
In freedom and light, they kissed and held, gentle-touching, intimate, glory to glory, until light shone through from source of heart—raised and radiant through skin and touch and spirit-express in become of one in morning sun. One spirit, one flesh, high-flutter and fall, they wavered of the Wonder.