This is the time to be slow…
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.
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, in “To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings”
Notes: Poem via MindfulBalance. Photo: “I am curious” by Olafur Eliasson (via thisisnthappiness)
Live & Learn 
Bless the wisdom he has left us!
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Yes!
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‘the wire brush of doubt’ – one that many of has dealt with firsthand. just move it aside and go.
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Yes, that line so stuck.
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What a wonderful way to start a week, with O’Donohue’s soothing words. The balm for that brush….
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Balm for that brush. Love that.
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Waiting for the air to be kind. This wire brush is relentless.
Hhhmmm, not your typical Monday morning wake up call post!!!
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Really????
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Yes, this is a gentle MMWC.
Take it easy on yourself gentle. You don’t come across as a take it easy on yourself kind of person.
Some of your MMWCs and more like a bucket of ice cold water in the face.
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Now that is something. Full stop.
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It almost felt like a trick MMWC!!!
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Ha! Now THAT would have been in my wheelhouse.
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That wire brush of doubt is mighty strong
That air needs to be kind.
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Smiling. It does.
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This is beautiful. Timing is perfect. I’ll be sharing the poem/prayer.
Thank you friend.
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So glad. Thanks Carrie.
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Oh yes!! This is so lovely and timely, David! Just what I need to take in today. “Blushed with beginning.” Lovely! Yes, thank you as always.
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So glad you enjoyed it too Debra.
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Ahhhh. Breathing a sigh of contentment.
John O’Donohue on a misty Monday morning.
It doesn’t get much better.
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Exactly. So amazing.
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Gawd, I hope so, Mister O’Donohue. (Such rare Holy-Family-soft value-(re)affirming presence in an often hard and demeaning world is why I love the Irish, Irish poets, and Irish priests.) (And Mary Oliver.)
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Smiling. So me too!
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Oh, boy! What a perfect post to come to this morning upon my return from that wall I hit.
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Another bloody great post this morning
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Smiling. Thank you!
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