Lie low until the bitter weather passes: A blessing
I had planned a conversation on darkness. It became a heavy cloak over
my soul. Sometimes what inspire us may be dangerous if the time is not
right. Then, I stumbled on these words, a needed blessing:
Try, as best you can, not to let
If you remain generous,
“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.”
John O'Donohue,
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Art by Marie-Noëlle Wurm
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