May your gravity be lightened by grace

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For Equilibrium, a Blessing:

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what’s said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”

― John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

John O’Donohue (1 January 1956 – 4 January 2008) was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He was a native Irish speaker, and as an author is best known for popularizing Celtic spirituality.  O’Donohue said: “Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live…it takes an awful lot of living with the powerless to really understand what it is like to be powerless, to have your voice, thoughts, ideas and concerns count for very little. We, who have been given much, whose voices can be heard, have a great duty and responsibility to make our voices heard with absolute integrity for those who are powerless.“

Sources: Image – Thank you Anake Goodall. O’Donohue Blessing: Good Reads. O’Donohue Bio: Wiki.

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52 thoughts on “May your gravity be lightened by grace”

  5. Exquisite David! A friend gave me a book of O’Donohue’s blessings a few years back and I refer to it frequently. The visual pairing is perfect with the blessing you chose. ALL blessings to you, pal…. 🙂

  6. Thank you David for this morning beauty. He is one of my favourite authors, much missed. The image is stunning…

  8. I adore the whole Celtic spirituality thing. In my mind, it’s source springs from the point where Christianity first met paganism and managed not to stomp on it, but transform it. We’ve had every home we’ve lived in blessed using St Brigid’s prayer.

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