This year has been full of so much - so much to grieve for and so much to hope for. As the year draws to a close and you look out onto the new year, I want to offer you a special blessing.
From my heart to yours - may your year be filled with love and the steady, soft step toward home. <3
A Blessing for the New Year
Beannacht
On the day when
The weight deadens
On your shoulders
And you stumble,
May the clay dance
To balance you.
And when your eyes.
Freeze behind
The gray window
And the ghost of loss
Gets into you,
May a flock of colors,
Indigo, red, green
And azure blue,
Come to awaken in you
A meadow of delight.
When the canvas frays
In the curragh 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.
Poem by John O'Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us
(You can hear the author read the poem here)