Blessings II

Here are some excerpts from different blessings from the book, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, by John O' Donohue...

Blessed be the longing that brought you here

And quickens your soul with wonder...

May your listening be attuned

To the deeper silence

Where sound is honed

To bring distance home.

May the fragrance

Of a breathing meadow

Refresh your heart

And remind you you are 

A child of the earth...

May your inner eye

See through the surfaces

And glean the real presence

Of everything that meets you...

Awaken to the mystery of being here

and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence...

May you listen to your longing to be free...

May you allow the wild beauty of the invisible world

to gather you, mind you, and embrace you in

belonging...

For Absence

May you know that absence is alive with hidden

presence, that nothing is ever lost or forgotten.

May the absences in your life grow full of eternal

echo.

May you sense around you the secret Elsewhere

where the presences that have left you dwell.

May you be generous in your embrace of loss.

May the sore well of grief turn into a seamless flow

of presence.

May your compassion reach out to the ones we never

hear from.

May you have the courage to speak for the excluded

ones.

May you become the gracious and passionate subject

of your own life.

May you not disrespect your mystery through brittle 

words or false belonging.

May you be embraced by God in who dawn and

twilight are one..

May your longing inhabit its dreams within the

Great Belonging.

For Friendship

May you be blessed with good friends,

And learn to be a good friend yourself,

Journeying to that place in your soul where

There is love, warmth, and feeling.

May this change you.

May it transfigure what is negative, distant,

Or cold within your heart.

May you be brought into real passion, kindness,

And belonging.

May you treasure your friends.

May you be good to them, be there for them

And receive all the challenges, truth, and light 

you need.

May you never be isolated but know the embrace

Of your anam cara.