Illumination

I saw in the news yesterday that the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is finished and the report showed the following picture:

It's such a beautiful image and I could feel the tears well up. It's decades since DC and I first visited the site and I was very impressed with the imaginative works. We toured the various Gaudí works in Barcelona and I loved them and the city. Then some years ago after the space shown in the above image was finished and accessible we returned. I remember the wonderful coloured light, the soring joyous space and thinking - what a place to dance this this would be if it were allowed! And what a place to pass through to then sit and meditate! For here, surely the highest in human kind is saying joy, we are here! And on seeing the above image I also recalled the image of the restored Notre Dame:

See Beauty post 30 Nov. 2024. The word illumination used in that post is again so relevant when we see what has been created at the Sagrada Família. So many skilled design, craft and trades people of all disciplines, funders and supporters have made these buildings sing in resonance with our hearts and minds. I'm reminded as I write of Walt Whitman's I sing the Body Electric.

And were it not for a telephone call last night from my mother I would be leaving this post at that, for it says enough. But, after only one night back home out of hospital she called to say she wasn't feeling right. And so I advised her to phone 999 and DC and I drove over to be with her and dad. I helped her out of bed into a dressing gown and travelled with her in the ambulance. And holding her frail body so she would feel safe and not fall I recalled how as teenager I'd done this (when she was seriously ill) and for a second I was holding him holding her. And we were tide and time as recent posts have illuminated and I thought - but how could I have ever not loved him in his fulness? But it is those times we wince at ourselves that let the light in, for everything is cracked. And yet it holds. I will go to the hospital now to see how she's doing. Bless.