| In honor of our first snowfall of the season, you are invited to a poem by Mary Oliver, First Snow. The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty and what the meaning; such an oracular fever! flowing past windows, an energy it seemed would never ebb, never settle less than lovely! and only now, deep into night, it has finally ended. The silence is immense, and the heavens still hold a million candles; nowhere the familiar things: stars, the moon, the darkness we expect and nightly turn from. Trees glitter like castles of ribbons, the broad fields smolder with light, a passing creekbed lies heaped with shining hills; and though the questions that have assailed us all day remain – not a single answer has been found – walking out now into the silence and the light under the trees, and through the fields, feels like one  Sources: (source: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary and the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), The Online Book of Common Prayer (bcponline.org) Do you have any questions for The Camel? Submit them to You can email your questions clergy@epiphanyec.org. Your name will be kept anonymous. |
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