[acb-hsp] FW: A Blessing For Longing

[Rhonda Partain]

I love this!!
Rhonda
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Baracco, Andrew W 
  To: Discussion list for ACB human service professionals 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:16 PM
  Subject: [acb-hsp] FW: A Blessing For Longing


  I came across this, and thought it was so beautiful and powerful that I thought I would share it with you.

   

  Andy

   

  Blessed be the longing that brought you here 

  And quickens your soul with wonder.

  May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire

  That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe. 

  May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease

  To discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.

  May the forms of your belonging - in love, creativity and friendship-

  Be equal to the grandeur and the call of your spirit.

   May your dreams gradually reveal the destination of your desire.

   May a secret Providence guide your thought and nurture your feeling.

   May your mind inhabit your life with the sureness 

  With which your body inhabits the world.

   May your heart never be haunted by ghost structures of old damage.

   May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.

   May you know the urgency which with the world longs for you and awaits your gift.

    

  - Excerpt from "To Bless the Space Between Us", Doubleday, Copyright 2008, John O'Donohue



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