31 Jan 2022

You are learning to relax by entering the heart of the panic. Note that the candles are crimson, oxygenated blood flowing, breathing in the fear and — please, please, please — letting it go. The gift given to you yesterday now asks you to watch it unfold.

A statue of Mary sits atop a small alter housing red vigil candles, flickering in the evening. Two angels flank her sides under the light outside the brick church.

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