Nov 8 - Kything

I recently finished re-reading Madeleine L'Engle's "A Swiftly Tilting Planet", one of the books in her time quintet.  The main characters, Meg and her brother Charles Wallace, are able to communicate with each other throughkything.  The following quote is from Madeleine L'Engle's book And It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings.

"We do not exist in isolation.  We are part of a vast web of relationships and interrelationships which sing themselves in the ancient harmonies. . . .

And our deepest messages of love are often conveyed without words.  In my writing I have used the wordkything, found in an old Scottish dictionary of my grandfather's, to express this communication without words, where there is  "neither speech nor language."  To kythe is open yourself to someone.  It is, for me, a form of intercessory prayer, for it is to be utterly vulnerable."