creating change without shouting
I’ve been looking forward to this last verse of John O’Donohue’s blessing For a New Beginning all week! These words have drawn me through the reality and vulnerability of the earlier verses. Knowing it would be worth it in the end. Awaken your spirit to adventure;Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;Soon you … Read more
Yes. That’s all it takes. Not if’s and but’s and maybe’s. Simply yes. Though your destination is not yet clearYou can trust the promise of this opening;Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginningThat is at one with your life’s desire. The fifth verse from John O’Donohue’s blessing: For a New Beginning. ~ Cheering on those … Read more
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,And out you stepped onto new ground,Your eyes young again with energy and dream,A path of plenitude opening up before you. As my friend, Amos Doornbos often remarks: the choice is up to us. ~ This is the fourth verse of John O’Donohue’s blessing: For a New Beginning.
We don’t always know when it’s time to move or to change. Yet often, something occurs that throws the folly of the comfort blanket we are holding into sharp relief. We didn’t realise – until we did – that we were holding back. And then we can’t unknow. It watched you play with the seduction … Read more
It’s hard to let go of things that have defined us. Yet, we cannot both hold on to the old and grasp the new simultaneously. Indeed, this voyage into autumn reminds us that death precedes re-birth. The leaf must change colour. The seed has to fall. This stripping away is essential to prepare for the … Read more
Beauty is not always what we see at first sight. Perhaps it’s because we’re not expecting it and need to look from a different angle. Or what we see is still emerging. Like a newborn, this isn’t its finished form. This week I want to walk with the good words of John O’Donohue’s blessing For … Read more