“And now presenting another public figure that failed to live up to the high standards he set for others…..ELLLIOTTT SPITZER!” 

Nothing funny in it at all of course. It’s tawdry, pathetic and, unfortunately, familiar. The Governor of New York riding into office on the white stallion of ethics and morality succumbs to his own secrets. Nabbed as a frequent client of a high-paid prostitution ring. Apparently the governor was a “difficult” client who enjoyed practices the girls didn’t find safe. Gov. Spitzer was caught in the most routine of ways…an I.R.S. agent who noticed amounts of money being moved from his banking accounts to shell corporations (i.e. corporations who don’t actually have any real estate). Roughly $80,000 was paid over the years. 

Elliot Spitzer isn’t alone.  We all have the things we do in the dark, the words we speak in the night and the closet door that stays closed.  It’s the secrets that will kill us.

Come into the light! Jesus urges. 

“Come my Love / Shine on my life as on a meadow / Highlight the blades to be washed in the light of the sun  /  On a bright summer morning.” wrote Thomas Merton.

The Light is our only hope. Not our posturing, our good intentions, our morality crusade. Just the light.

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