Lifted up to God by God

We've somehow reached the mid-point of August, at the end of a week which contained an astonishing solar eclipse and the fifth heatwave of this summer. A week for seeking shade, rather than being adorned or clothed by the sun, as the first reading for today's feast of the Assumption, from the Book of Revelation, poetically describes Mary. But a week, too, for trying to coax my shy sunflower into…