“For me, the Incarnation is the place, if you will, where hope contends with fear. Not an antique doctrine at all, but reality–as ordinary as my everyday struggles with fears great and small, as exalted as the hope that allows me some measure of peace when I soldier on in the daily round.
When a place or time seems touched by God, it is an overshadowing, a sudden eclipsing of my priorities and plans. But even in terrible circumstances and calamities, in matters of life and death, if I sense that I am in the shadow of God, I find light, so much light that my vision improves dramatically. I know that holiness is near.
And it is not robed in majesty. It does not assert itself with the raw power of empire (not even the little empire of me in which I all too often reside), but it waits in puzzlement, it hesitates. Coming from Galilee, as it were, from a place of little hope, it revels the ordinary circumstances of my life to be full of mystery, and gospel, with means ‘good news.’ “
Kathleen Norris
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
Riverhead Books, The Berkley Publishing Group
1998
This is where I am today, reveling in the ordinary circumstances that are llena de misterio precisely because God has eclipsed darkness with light.
Naphtalia 
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