Friday, September 8, 2017

Blessings for Those Who Suffer

May you be blessed in the holy names of those
Who, without you knowing it,
Help to carry and lighten your pain.

May memory bless and protect you
With the hard-earned light of past travail;
To remind you that you have survived before
And though the darkness now is deep,
You will soon see approaching light.

--John O'Donohue



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