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Beannacht/Blessing
On the day when
John O'Donohue
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.
And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.
A Blessing for Beauty
May the beauty of your life become more visible to you,
May the wonders of the earth call you forth from all your small,
secret prisons and set your feet free in the pastures of possibilities.
May the light of dawn anoint your eyes that you may
May the angel of memory surprise you in bleak times with
new gifts from the harvest of your vanished days.
May you allow no dark hand to quench the candle
May the outside voices of fear and despair
May you always trust the urgency and wisdom
And when love finds the path to your door may you open like
the earth to the dawn,and trust your every hidden color towards
its nourishment of light.
And may you know that despite confusion,anxiety and emptiness,
your name is written in Heaven.
May Divine Beauty bless you.
John O'Donohue
From"Beauty-The Invisible Embrace "
that you may glimpse your wild divinity.
behold what a miracle a day is.
May the liturgy of twilight shelter all your fears
and darkness within the circle of ease.
of hope in your heart.
May you discover a new generosity towards yourself,
and encourage yourself to engage your life as a great adventure.
find no echo in you.
of your own spirit.
May the shelter and nourishment of all the good you have
done,the love you have shown,the suffering you have carried,
awaken around you to bless your life a thousand times.
May you find enough stillness and silence to savor the kiss
of God on your soul and delight in the eternity that shaped
you, that holds you and calls you.
And may you come to see your life as a quiet sacrament
of service, which awakens around you a rhythm where
doubt gives way to the grace of wonder,where what is
awkward and strained can find elegance,and where
crippled hope can find wings,and torment enter at last
unto the grace of serenity.
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