After the rain, spotty sun and a great deal of wind. You can see the white flames of clouds racing across the sky consuming the blue, leaving ragged holes the sun with its brighter flame burns through. Later today that same sun is supposed to burn off all the remaining clouds leaving us with a lot more blue, though it seems to me that the wind will have more to do with that than the sun. When the wind blows so strongly, it makes a noisy morning and almost as few birds out as when there is rain. Perhaps wind makes of flight an uncertainty, in that you don't know what there is to push against from moment to moment, in some respects kind of like our lives that have so much change and uncertainty about things invisible and beyond us.
Today is the day of the blessing, and this one for equilibrium seems to be a good one for all the world, for so much that is unsettled, and for so many kinds of wind.
A Blessing for Equilibrium
Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the music of laughter break through your soul.
As the wind wants to make everything dance,
May your gravity be lightened by grace.
Like the freedom of the monastery bell,
May clarity of mind make your eyes smile.
As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.
As silence smiles on the other side of what’s said,
May a sense of irony give you perspective.
As time remains free of all that it frames,
May fear or worry never put you in chains.
May your prayer of listening deepen enough
To hear in the distance the laughter of God.
John O'Donohue
So much beauty in the wind making everything that is flexible and supple dance, so much grace in the sound of our chimes, and the rush of water pushed by that same wind and the tides of the moon-pull. The blessings of today surely must make us laugh along with God, for the joy inherent in this world, all that beauty and grace, taking shape, continually created, and experienced daily, the mind reaching out to embrace it all, the heart accepting it, and the soul quietly infusing it all with meaning.
May there be an abundance of blessings in your week ahead; may there be joy and grace and love to celebrate every day!
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