Dear crew of The Broken Binnacle,
A blessed Saturday to you!
I am once again emailing you from the Holy Land on a work trip. Short version of the story: my work with The Philos Project’s new Catholic team entails hosting a variety of trips for Catholics to Israel and we are currently in the midst of hosting the Dominican Friars (viz., seminarians from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC) on a pilgrimage. Please pray that the friars have a fruitful and blessed experience during this time and also that the trip will continue to go smoothly and safely.
As for the weekly poem, I’m pleased to share a guest piece from Chris Carter. Chris is a writer and photographer living in Los Angeles who strives to connect the everyday churchgoer with the depths of our Christian faith and to tangibly display the beauty of God around us.
Please be sure to check out, like, and follow more of Chris’s work on Instagram (@chriscarter_photography) or online here. In the meantime, enjoy his poem!
God bless,
James
Like sunlight
dappling and
speckling
a forest canopy,
you dance and
dart
between leaves,
Your face,
my first light,
my first sight.
~
Like a supernova
bursting and
spreading,
eternity swims
in your eyes,
a gift foretelling
all the beauty to come,
Your love,
my best light,
my best sight.
~
Like a child
swaddled and
beheld,
I behold your gaze,
longing and
burning
to see your dancing light
and bursting eternity
always looking back.
Be my endless vision,
my only light,
my only sight.
~
selah
This piece is called “Mar’eh,” which means “sight” in Hebrew, and is one piece among a collection of poems by Chris that he wrote in hopes of poetically capturing the major themes within the story of the Bible from creation to restoration.