If your music can’t describe the agony
without the temptation to temper it with sweetness,
let it crash to the floor.
If your canvas cannot portray
the infinite end, the sightless abyss, the void,
let it be empty.
If your words can do no more
than faintly echo the forsaken psalm,
then let them speak silence.

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About Rosalind C Hughes
Rosalind C Hughes is a priest and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. She serves an Episcopal church just outside Cleveland. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.