welcome, welcome to day 46 of a season of peace and the seventh day of embracing the creeping crud as we dance to the last songs of winter soulstice in this sacred space of sojourning in the desert of the heart, a journey that is quite the purification, the clean-sing in the last hours before equinox and the full moon…

as much as i am loving this baring of everything and living in an in between times consciousness, i want to get a jump on the celebrating to come…

tomorrow, when we celebrate the wild, poetically enchanting, magical Ireland, who better to hear an echo from her than her late great native son, John O’Donahue…

A Celebration Blessing

Now is the time
to free the heart,
Let all intentions and worries stop,
Free the joy inside the self,
Awaken to the wonder
of your life.

Open your eyes and see the friends
Whose hearts recognize your face as kin,
Those whose kindness watchful and near,
Encourages you to live everything here.

See the gifts the years have given,
Things your effort could never earn,
The health to enjoy who you want to be
And the mind to mirror mystery.

~

ah yes, brother john, i’ll have a gracious plenty of that and  will engage compassion to lead my actions, my words and my life…