Saturday, February 23, 2019

For Your Birthday

Blessed be those who have loved you
Into becoming who you were meant to be...

Blessed be the gifts you never notice,
Your health, eyes to behold the world,
Thoughts to countenance the unknown,
Memory to harvest vanished days...

On this echoing-day of your birth,
may you open the gift of solitude
In order to receive your soul;
Enter the generosity of silence
To hear your hidden heart;
Know the serenity of stillness
To be enfolded anew
By the miracle of your being.

by John O'Donohue


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