Coming home to a new rhythm

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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

Befriending the unknown

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An invitation to largeness, to a space bigger than we can imagine or occupy. That stretches beyond the horizon of our sight. And extends into time beyond our present. A place of conversation with our vulnerability that releases the fragrance of possibility. Will we choose to befriend the unknown or keep the door tightly closed?

Stumbling our way forward

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In a generously insightful piece over the weekend, the writer/poet Martin Wroe quoted Henri Nouwen: “We don’t think our way into a new kind of living. We live our way into a new kind of thinking.” And this is someone who knew the reality of stepping across the threshold into the awkward unknown. Henri had … Read more