Your Daily Miracle: John O'Donohue
from a blessing For Longing, by the Irish poet and mystic John O'Donohue:
Blessed be the longing that brought you here
And quickens your soul with wonder.
May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire
That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.
May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease
To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.
May the forms of your belonging--in love, creativity, and friendship--
Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul.
. . .
May your mind inhabit your life with the sureness
with which your body inhabits the world.
May your heart never be haunted by ghost-structures of old damage.
May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.
May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.
--From To Bless the Space Between Us, 2008--a book our dear friends and Mennonite pastors gave to us before we left Pennsylvania, and one that I have deeply treasured in this new place, a place where our longings have found and continue to find shape.
Blessed be the longing that brought you here
And quickens your soul with wonder.
May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire
That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.
May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease
To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.
May the forms of your belonging--in love, creativity, and friendship--
Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul.
May your mind inhabit your life with the sureness
with which your body inhabits the world.
May your heart never be haunted by ghost-structures of old damage.
May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.
May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.
--From To Bless the Space Between Us, 2008--a book our dear friends and Mennonite pastors gave to us before we left Pennsylvania, and one that I have deeply treasured in this new place, a place where our longings have found and continue to find shape.
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