Iridescence

Thursday in the Second Week of Lent

Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you established the moon and the sun.
Psalm 74:15

The images my friend texts me seem to float off my phone and shimmer in the air in front of me. The iridescent splendor of the orchids tucked into a tree in her moonlit garden are astonishing.

This night beauty is balm for night waking, a remedy for restless thoughts that can disturb the small hours. I think of all that God has created that is nocturnal, that is most magnificent when it is most dark.

I carry the images with me as I go to bed, tucking them into my soul, to be brought out again when needed, as solace, as consolation, as inspiration.