4 thoughts on “Returning to the blog after a summer break!”
Welcome back! I appreciate this prayer. Do you have a source for it that does not include the background image? I experience the background as hetero/romantic.
*For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, Yes!* Dag Hammarskjold
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:05 AM, pastordawn wrote:
> Rev. Dawn Hutchings posted: “After a splendid summer break it’s time > to return to regular posting. I begin with a Friendship Blessing from John > O’Donohue “
Elizabeth you can find the blessing in John O’Donohue’s book Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom; HarperCollins…my hard copy is on loan or I’d give you the page #… here’s the text sans image:
May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul
where there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.
May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging.
May you treasure your friends.
May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
may ay they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth, and light
that you need for your journey.
May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam cara
Welcome back! I appreciate this prayer. Do you have a source for it that does not include the background image? I experience the background as hetero/romantic.
*Elizabeth *
Rev. Elizabeth Patrick, MA elizabethpatrick@companis.org revepat@gmail.com 206-459-0206
*For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, Yes!* Dag Hammarskjold
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:05 AM, pastordawn wrote:
> Rev. Dawn Hutchings posted: “After a splendid summer break it’s time > to return to regular posting. I begin with a Friendship Blessing from John > O’Donohue “
Elizabeth you can find the blessing in John O’Donohue’s book Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom; HarperCollins…my hard copy is on loan or I’d give you the page #… here’s the text sans image:
May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul
where there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.
May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging.
May you treasure your friends.
May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
may ay they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth, and light
that you need for your journey.
May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam cara
Elizabeth: here’s the link to an earlier post about Anum Cara:
http://pastordawn.com/2013/05/02/anam-cara-the-blessing-of-a-soul-friend/
My friend and I will read this together although we are apart and it will
be our way of “holding hands through our journey”! Thank you,
Susan