Friday, January 31, 2025

January Twenty- Twenty-Five

 

For you, for the new year: a blessing that has been waiting for you to arrive. As we cross into 2025, may we find it—and make it—a welcoming kind of year.
Blessing the Threshold 
This blessing
has been waiting for you
for a long time.
While you have been
making your way here,
this blessing has been
gathering itself,
making ready,
biding its time,
praying.
This blessing has been
polishing the door,
oiling the hinges,
sweeping the steps,
lighting candles
in the windows.
This blessing has been
setting the table
as it hums a tune
from an old song
it knows,
something about
a spiraling road
and bread
and grace.
All this time
it has kept an eye
on the horizon,
watching,
keeping vigil,
hardly aware of how
it was leaning itself
in your direction.
And now that
you are here,
this blessing
can hardly believe
its good fortune
that you have finally arrived,
that it can drop everything
at last
to fling its arms wide
to you, crying
welcome,
welcome,
welcome.
—Jan Richardson

 











Thursday, January 30, 2025

Throwback Thursday 1-30

 

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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Reliving the Magic #2

 MORE amazing magic to relive from Dani and Tyler's wedding day-- November 13, 2024.