20-06 2020 14:28
schreef:
A turn of phrase I learned from my African friends: I went [there] and met your absence. You will be meeting Chris's absence everywhere in the weeks and months and years to come. Here is a blessing for absence from John O'Donohue, Irish teacher and poet:
A Blessing for Absence
John O'Donohue
May you know that absence is alive with hidden
presence, that nothing is ever lost or forgotten,
May the absences in your life grow full
of eternal echo.
May you sense around you the secret Elsewhere
where the presences that have left you dwell.
May you be generous in your embrace of loss.
May the sore well of grief turn into
a seamless flow of presence.
May you be embraced by God in whom
dawn and twilight are one.
May your longing inhabit its dreams
within the Great Belonging.
20-06 2020 14:28
schreef:
A turn of phrase I learned from my African friends: I went [there] and met your absence. You will be meeting Chris's absence everywhere in the weeks and months and years to come. Here is a blessing for absence from John O'Donohue, Irish teacher and poet:
A Blessing for Absence
John O'Donohue
May you know that absence is alive with hidden
presence, that nothing is ever lost or forgotten,
May the absences in your life grow full
of eternal echo.
May you sense around you the secret Elsewhere
where the presences that have left you dwell.
May you be generous in your embrace of loss.
May the sore well of grief turn into
a seamless flow of presence.
May you be embraced by God in whom
dawn and twilight are one.
May your longing inhabit its dreams
within the Great Belonging.
