The Slim Crescent of the Moon
St. John the Baptist, pointing to Jesus, said: “I must decrease, and He must increase.” Very vividly the Catholic novelist Flannery O’Connor made the same point in a journal from 1946, as she was striving to find her vocation as a writer. She died in the early 1960s but still remains popular for her novels, described as “Southern grotesque” because of the alarming way in which she speaks of grace rushing into our world.