sacred union

  • Consequences of Division

    The demons had been unusually restless since the veil began to thin. They had always lived among us, although in earlier centuries they possessed the dignity to remain mostly invisible. They preferred cathedrals after midnight, the bedsides of dying kings, the corners of rooms where grief had been left unattended for too many years. They…

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  • The first thing she noticed was that animals stopped being afraid of her. It happened gradually. A blackbird remained on the cemetery wall when she passed beneath it. A fox stood at the edge of the woods one morning and watched her without running. Even the old neighborhood cat, a scarred thing that trusted nobody…

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  • The Lovers Beneath the Veil

    You have dreamed of him before. You never remember his face. Only the sensation of being followed through places you have never visited while awake. Sometimes there is snow beneath your bare feet. Sometimes black water. Once, an orchard appeared beneath a violet moon, every tree heavy with fruit you somehow knew you were forbidden…

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  • The Softness That Stands Tall

    There is a lie that has been whispered so often it sounds like truth. That when a woman submits, she shrinks. That when she yields, she loses. That when she softens, she is somehow less. But the spiritual meaning of submission was never about becoming smaller. It was about becoming safe enough to unfold. Submission…

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  • The Lost Years

    He woke before the light touched the stone. Not from sleep, but from forgetting. Something inside him had shifted in the night, like a door opening where there had never been a wall. His breath felt wider than his body. The air listened when he inhaled. The ground beneath him answered when he stood. This…

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  • Some things remain the same, and some things shift before our eyes. The world likes to ask who followed who, as though one must always walk behind the other. But I tell you this—I was the one who bore life, and he was life itself. They tried to rewrite what we were by naming us…

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  • He came to me in a dream. The one who turned water into wine, the one who parted the sea. He broke bread with the poor and with those in need. He walked upon the water and called the storm to silence. He healed the dead and the dying, and he rose on that day.…

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