“It would be lovely if we could rediscover our power to bless one another. I believe each of us can bless.” - John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us | A Book of Blessings.
This summer at Wellshire, we are exploring blessings and beginning to learn how we can bless one another.
“In the ecstasy and loneliness of one’s life, there are certain times when blessing is nearer to us than any other person or thing.” says O’Donohue. “A blessing is not a sentiment or a question; it is a gracious invocation where the human heart pleads with the divine heart.”
Are you pleading for God to give you God’s heart? A heart of action no longer indifferent and afraid.
May God’s calling to you take you down pathways you never anticipated.
A blessing for you.
For Citizenship
In these times when anger
Is turned into anxiety
And someone has stolen
The horizons and mountains,
Our small emperors on parade
Never expect our indifference
To disturb their nakedness.
They keep their heads down
And their eyes gleam with reflection
From aluminum economic ground,
The media wraps everything
In a cellphone of sound,
And the ghost surface of the virtual
Overlays the breathing earth.
The industry of distraction
Makes us forget
That we live in a universe.
We have become converts
To the religion of stress
And its deity of progress;
That we may have courage
To turn aside from it all
And come to kneel down before the poor,
To discover what we must do,
How to turn anxiety
Back into anger,
How to find our way home.
- John O’Donohue
To find your way home, what are you called to turn back into anger? Share in the comments what God’s calling is to you during this time?
