Unconventional Blessings
Thank you so much Hillary M. from Lush Folk for your insights and inspiration. This piece of writing is such a perfect match for my life right now. I hope it serves you all as Hillary`s words have helped me, may you be uplifted by them as they have uplifted and healed me in many ways. Now, Im practicing the art of blessing. Being able to recognise, acknowledge and affirm how blessings are unfolding in every layer of our being. Unconditional blessings, all around.
“Disappointment, I bless you. Uncertainty, I bless you. Unknown, unwanted, unloved, I bless you and you and you. I bless releasing and being released, liberation and letting go. I bless all things new. I bless the rhythms of light and dark, the way night follows morning and how the soul always knows her time. I bless Rumi's crowd of sorrows, sweeping my house empty and clearing me out for some new delight. I bless the spacious and the bare—the white page, the hollow ground, not finding words, not having answers, not knowing why. I bless the awkward endings, the uneven stitches of sewn-back-together, the frayed edges of once-adored. I bless the not-having-closure and the brave loving-anyways. I bless the pans falling out of the cabinet whenever I open the door—a cry for attention like the howl in my heart, the hunger in my belly, the fire in my eyes. I bless all of you. I will listen. I will kneel and attend to you. Unexpected joy—I so bless you. I bless your strength and sparkling wells of wisdom. I bless the luscious possibilities of grace, of next, of this moment. I bless the deep exhale, the YES, the magnetic delight of hope. I bless the kitchen-table-laughter. The safe havens of kindred souls. I bless the wonders of how and of love. I bless these wild and wise days. Their watchful eyes know everything. I bless the not-feeling-enough yet believing I am anyway. I bless new beginnings and dreamy continuings. Heartache, I bless you and whisper “peace. Be still.” Body, I bless you and all the sorrow that you carry. Home, I bless you and everything you hold. Friends, I bless you and wish you everything life-giving and true. Today, I bless you and all the ways you bring me present. Future, I bless you and the gift of your mystery. I bless the having and the having not, the lonely and the filled, the longing and the love.”
—Hillary M. www.lushfolk.com