How wonderful how marvellous
You surprise us
You touch us with your presence
Clean our hearts
And prepare us again
Mercy in the morning
Brand new
Light in the Dark
Your word is a lamp unto our feet
Your word is our daily delight
Fills us up
And counsels
Testimonials to remind us of your Love
It’s all apart of your plan
To allow us to choose Love and not death
To reunite us with our first love
You teach us
And we want more
More experience
More Love
Each life is clothed in raiment of spirit
that secretly links it to everything else.
~John O’Donohue
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility and our hearts to love life. Without this subtle quickening our days would be empty and wearisome, and no horizon would ever awaken our longing. Our passion for life is quietly sustained from somewhere in us that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life. This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our very presence here as blessing. ~John O’Donohue
You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours. ~Psalm 128:2 ✝
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Courage brings to life
what can be imagined
Courage lifts its head
above what’s familiar.
Courage speaks up to fear
and it listens humbly
Courage always rides
on the back of peace.
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung
into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
~Jean Houston
Heavy
That time
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had his hand in this,
as well as friends.
Still, I was bent,
and my laughter,
as the poet said,
was nowhere to be found.
Then said my friend Daniel,
(brave even among lions),
“It’s not the weight you carry
but how you carry it –
books, bricks, grief –
it’s all in the way
you embrace it, balance it, carry it
when you cannot, and would not,
put it down.”
So I went practicing.
Have you noticed?
Have you heard
the laughter
that comes, now and again,
out of my startled mouth?
How I linger
to admire, admire, admire
the things of this world
that are kind, and maybe
also troubled –
roses in the rain,
the sea geese on the steep waves,
a love
to which there is no reply?
~Adapted poem by Mary Oliver
He(God) will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. ~Job 8:21 ✝
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