Blessed are you whohold hope with an open hand.You who try not to fix your gazeon time’s far horizon orget drunk on what might yet be. And blessed are you whoavoid walking too far down memorylane, getting stuck wondering if thatwas as good as it gets,if you’ve peaked,or feeling resentful about all thathas disappointed before. […]
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A blessing for when you want to change (but not become a self-help perfectibility monster)
God, I carry around this incompleteness, this drive for fulfillment that always seems just around the corner. If only I could get it together and find my true calling, my real passion, or the right plan. God, help me, guide me. What am I missing? Blessed are we who strive earnestly to change ourselves and […]
a blessing for keeping your heart soft when everything is broken
Blessed are you who see it all now. The terrible, beautiful truth that our world, our lives seem irreparably broken. And you can’t unsee it. The hungry kid. The exhausted mom. The woman who wonders if any of this is worth it. The loneliness and despair. Blessed are you who glimpse reality and don’t turn […]
a blessing for when you realize everyone is struggling
a blessing when you realize everyone is struggling blessed are you who have realized that life is hard. and it’s hard for everyone. your awareness came at a cost. you lost something you can’t get back. you were diagnosed with chronic pain or a degenerative disease. your family fell apart and things have never been […]
a blessing for a chaotic season
blessed are we, the fearful. though we long to be people of peace, we can’t liewe are afraid. afraid there wont’ be enough – enough resources, enough time, enough memories. blessed are we who ask You for wisdom, show us what to turn from, what to set aside. come Lord, that we might see you, […]
a blessing for when you’re tired of waiting for the world to get better
a blessing for when you’re tired of waiting for the world to get better. blessed are we who wait with bated breath. who wait for something new to be born–for new hope or new joy or new life. blessed are we whose patience grows thinner by the day. we who are tired of the world […]
a blessing for the brave.
blessed are you, brave one. you who perform big courageous acts of sacrifice. the firefighters and military and activists and doctors and nurses and paramedics. you who move toward danger so the rest of us feel a little more safe. blessed are you, brave one. you who do small acts of great love. the memory […]
a blessing for learning to hold on and let go
let go, let it all go except, of course, when you can’t. living in the present is nice in theory. except when you are in pain.so let’s bless that tension, the push pull of wanting to let go, sometimes needing to let go, and also needing to hold on. God, sometimes it feels like a […]
a blessing for life after loss
blessed are you, who feel the wound of fresh loss. or of the loss… no matter how fresh… that still makes your voice crack all these years later. you who are stuck in the impossibility. frozen in disbelief. how can this be? it wasn’t supposed to be this way. blessed are you, fumbling around for […]
a blessing for the day we mourn our dead (All Saints’ Day)
today we are drawn into remembrance. the complexity of love and loss both warms our hearts and chills our bones. invisible connections are revealed just as the light of the sun illuminates the lines of a web, we see that our lives are connected to those who are no longer here. blessed are we who […]