Let Evening Come: Visual Meditation

February 1, 2008 · by Christine

 

My hermitage faces west over the water, so most evenings are magical.  I love the twilight time when we get ready to embrace the darkness of night.

Let Evening Come

Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.

-Jane Kenyon

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12 Responses to “Let Evening Come: Visual Meditation”

  1. Sue Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 6:16 am

    Ooh, this made me ache. Beautiful. I especially love the line “Let the shed
    go black inside. Let evening come.”

    Thanks Christine :)

  2. Sarah Whitworth Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 8:03 am

    “Enamored of the parting West — the peace —
    the flight — the amethyst — Night’s possibility.”
    ~ Emily Dickinson

  3. Suz Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 8:04 am

    I love how worked in “God does not leave us comfortless.” Very helpful poem. Thanks Christine for another lovely post. You photographs make me want to weep.

  4. lucy Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 10:02 am

    everything about this post is wonderful!

  5. Karla MG (Kmamommy) Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Oooooooo! Absolutely stunning! The images and poem are both breathtaking. I needed this moment of pause on a Friday afternoon following an exhausting week! Thank you for sharing this beauty and peace!

  6. Elaine Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    stunning, sublime, serene

    the photos and poems are much needed today

    thank you for these gifts

  7. Christine Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    Thanks for all the beautiful comments, I have the best readers ever! :-)

  8. Sunrise Sister Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    Christine, Your photos are so beautiful and think that Lucy is going to have to very willingly drag me to the Hermitage.

    Right this minute, I’ve left the beautiful NW and I’m sitting on a deck overlooking the Pacific in Maui. Humpback whales breaching on the horizon, the sun beginning to set. You might say “why am I on the internet” well, because I have established this strange relationship with some blog partners and it feels that if I connect with them now, they will feel this moment with us. My husband and I are both hooked on this strange connection with persons we’ve never met. If he wasn ‘t “this partner in crime” I would not be blissfully looked at a few blogsites at this minute.

    Blessings on you and Petunia and The Hermitage.

  9. yolanda Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    These photos are beautiful and breathtaking. Love the peom too.

  10. Elaine Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Christine, I just have to make a second comment on this post. Tonight during my after work run, I saw a fragment of the sky depicted in your third photograph. There was also just a hint of pale violet. So lovely. I might have missed this it if not for your post today. I intentionally looked up at the sky while running instead of the path ahead. Fortunately, I didn’t run into any trees or fall on my face.

  11. Christine Says:
    February 2nd, 2008 at 11:44 am

    Sunrise Sister, you are more than welcome for a visit! I will be there until the end of April. It would be delightful to meet you too, you have such a wonderful sister. :-) Your time in Maui sounds intoxicating!

    Thanks yolanda and Elaine. Elaine, I appreciate you sharing how this post touched you in concrete ways (and thankfully you didn’t end up on the concrete!) :-)

  12. Sunrise Sister Says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Christine, I read a question from you yesterday re NYC living and for the life of me I can’t remember “where” you asked me so I’ll answer here in hopes that you’ll check this spot again. When we lived in Manhattan for 3 years, we were at 9th Avenue between 21st and 22nd at The General Seminary of the Episcopal Church.

    My other 27 years in the east were spent various times in Mamaroneck, NY, Greenwich, CT.

    You know now, I think, that we live in Walla Walla WA. We treasure our life there - the NW is our home. WW is reminiscent of small towns we both grew up in. Spouse in Edina, MN, and me in Bethany, OK

    Aloha from Maui for the moment:)

    xoxox

    SS

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