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A
Blessing for Beauty
May
the beauty of your life become more visible to you,
that
you may glimpse your wild divinity.
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
behold what a miracle
a day is.
May
the liturgy of twilight shelter all your fears and darkness
within
the circle of ease.
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
of hope in your
heart.
May
you discover a new generosity towards yourself,
and encourage
yourself to
engage your life as a great adventure.
May
the outside voices of fear and despair find no echo in you.
May
you always trust the urgency and wisdom 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.
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.
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 know that despite confusion, anxiety
and emptiness, your
name is written in Heaven.
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.
May
Divine Beauty bless you.
— John O’Donohue
From Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
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