May You Be Blessed

May You Be Blessed

-Laurie Benson

KnewMeJournaling©2020

inspired by John O'Donohue's "For A New Beginning"

You have out of the way places

of the heart.  You hardly

ever go there, but perhaps

this beginning will help

the emptiness that is growing

inside you to be filled.

Already your thoughts are

beginning to wander, and

notice again how you 

will yourself on.  

Perhaps you

could trust the wandering

of the thoughts to take you

to those heart's fifth

chambers.

Being unable to leave what

you have outgrown is

what causes your emotional

body pain.  Your spirit's

adventure confined in a space

too small.

Your soul is sensing the world

that is awaiting you.

This is the pulling on

of your shoes to walk

out into the world each

day and be willing

to fall.

This very morning your

courage was kindled until

you landed hard on

hands and knees, feeling

all your energies and dreams

fall to that hard ground.

Unfurled, you knew there

was only then, the grace

of the beginning.

Finding that new rhythm,

and an ease in the risk

of rising again, you

took a breath, slowly

straightened yourself up,

and walked the path

of plentitude home.

Your soul senses the world

that awaits you, and

that is why

you place your shoes

by the door, and will

go out

again

tomorrow.