Blessing
Recently I have been reading from John O’Donohue’s "Benedictus: A Book Of Blessings". He is a poet from the Celtic tradition and all his work evokes a sense of warmth and belonging and a yearning and a sense for the deeper things in life. It is often as we stand at the threshold of change and loss that we feel that yearning for something beyond ourselves and the warmth and courage that that can bring. The word blessing helps us here as it evokes a sense of warmth and protection; it suggests...