Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Space matters more than most people think. We overlook space, but space is full. It’s chock-a-block with particles, waves, radiation, magnetic fields, and dark matter.
In the Sanctus, we say, “Heaven and earth are full of thy glory.” You might consider that an acknowledgment that the universe is not absent anywhere. Even though space appears empty, it’s full of glory. It’s full of life. It’s full of stuff.
Turning to space will change your life. You will begin to recognize that what appears empty, scary, lifeless, and vacant can never be wrong in the absolute sense. Even dead things live. Which means, they disappear and decay. Constancy of life—moving. Full and Everywhere.
This should excite you: to know space is full, that space matters, and that polarities are full of life, connective, and joined. Space is not cutoff, but full of glory. Darkness is not void of the light. There is light in the darkness. Darkness is not a physical substance or a “thing” that exists independently.
From a scientific viewpoint, darkness is not a substance or energy in itself. Somehow, and I’m convinced that darkness has no power over us. In ignorance, intelligence hides. In memory, forgetting hides. In “empty” space, fullness hides. But in looking closer, space is chock full of glory. Find a corner of the universe that is not the universe. Find a way to pull the universe apart and call it separate from itself. So-called absence is what a human figure is made of. But absence, like darkness, is not its own power.
Light is power, even if it appears “off.” Absence is not a power or substance separate from the oneness of presence itself. The absence is full too.
Sanctus means “holy.” Holy means consecrated.
Consecrated means sacred. Nothing scary. Nothing vacant. Nothing missing. Full of Glory! Everywhere, even in the darkest of the dark.