Blessed are you who say:This did not add up. I had hoped these choices I made, the life I tried so hard to pick,would add up to somethingMeaningful. But now I’m left without many choices at all. Left wondering… did I pick right? Did I waste my days? What should I have done differently? This limited life is what […]
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A blessing for when faith breaks your heart
Blessed are you standing among the ruins of a faith that once felt so sturdy,now turned to dust under your feet. The certainty you once had, gone. The community you loved, dissipated.The hope you held dear, hard to find. Instead, what’s taken up residence is the very stuff that seems counter to what you imagined:Disappointment. Doubt. Disillusionment. Despair. In […]
A blessing for when you’re different now
Blessed are you, dear one, when the world around you has changed. Everything is different now,your body, your age, your relationships, your job, your faith. The things that once brought you joy.The way you existed in the world.The people you love and trust and rely on. Things have changed and it would be silly to […]
A blessing for when you wake up tired (again, today)
God, it’s morning and I’m already tired. This is the kind of tiredness that muffles promise in a day,cluttering it with the messes of the pastand the unfilled hopes of the future. Blessed are we who say,God, I know that there is goodness and love and beauty somewhere.It calls, but from beyond my reach. God, […]
A blessing for everyday empathy (because, hey, SENSITIVITY ISN’T A BAD THING)
Blessed are you, the sensitive one, attuned to the feelings of others.You couldn’t turn it off if you tried. Blessed are you with the emotional bandwidth to hear hard things,without fixing or minimizing or deflecting,You know the gift of presence. Blessed are you who chooses to show up without judgmentwith little gifts or small acts […]
A Blessing for When the Road is Long
God, I could not have imaginedthat this road could beso long, so hard, so daunting. Here I am, worn out—body and soul. Blessed are we, the wearywho must set aside what we are carrying,and begin to feel only the weight of our own being.It is enough for now. Let our shoulders sink from around our […]
A Blessing For the Start of a New School Year
The year is tilting toward the start of school again, but truth be told, we’re not ready. We’re still hanging on to summer, to the promise it held for long-awaited connections and celebrations, for refreshment for our bodies and souls in water and sky and color and sunlight, and all those little moments given to […]
A blessing for when it’s not fair
The last time anyone let me say it– tears in my eyes, straight from the heart –I was a child. Didn’t anyone tell you?Life isn’t fair. So I swallow it up. But God, without hearing you say it –“My love, this isn’t fair” –I am heartsick. I ate this sadness and it became embarrassment;I ate […]
A blessing for if you happen to be having an ordinary day
Lord, here I am. How strange it is, that some days feel like hurricanesand others like glassy seasand others like nothing much at all. Today is a cosmic shrug. My day planner says,rather conveniently,that I will not need you,cry for you, reach for you. Ordinarily, I might not think of you at all. Except, if […]
A blessing for learning to Delight again
(maybe today could be more than bearable. It could be beautiful.) Blessed are you, the pragmatic,You who have run the math and know what adds up—and what doesn’t.You who have set it all down.You who don’t hope or dream or plan anymore,…because what’s the point? Your world has shrunk.Pain or grief or fear has sucked […]
