Blessing for the Light

 

I thank you, light, again,

for helping me to find

the outline of my daughter’s face.

I thank you light, for the subtle way

your merest touch gives shape

to such things I could

only learn to love

through your delicate instruction.

And I thank you, this morning

waking again,

most intimately and secretly

for your visible invisibility,

the way you make me look

at the face of the world

so that everything, becomes

an eye to everything else

and so that strangely,

I also see myself being seen.

So that I can be born again

in that sight, so that

I can have this one other way

along with every other way,

to know that I am here.

—David Whyte

[Our children and grandchildren with my mother, October 2022]