Stay – Mar. 25, 2022
… You cannot know it now,cannot even imaginewhat lies ahead,but I tell youthe day is comingwhen breath willfill your lungsas it never has before,and with your own earsyou will hear wordscoming to you newand startling.You will dream dreamsand you will see the worldablaze with blessing. Wait for it.Still yourself.Stay. –Jan Richardson, from “Stay”, The Cure […]
Solace Blessing – Mar. 24, 2022
That’s it.That’s all this blessingknows how to do: Shine your shoes.Fill your refrigerator.Water your plants.Make some soup. All the thingsyou cannot thinkto do yourselfwhen the world has come apart,when nothingwill be normalagain. …. –Jan Richardson, from “Solace Blessing“, The Cure for Sorrow, p. 77
Don’t Tell Me – Mar. 23, 2022
Do not tell methis will make memore grateful for whatI had.…Give me insteadthe blessingof sitting with mewhen you cannot thinkof what to say. –Jan Richardson, from “The Blessing You Should Not Tell Me,” The Cure for Sorrow, p. 54
An Empty House – Mar. 22, 2022
… I knowthere are dayswhen the only thingmore brave than leavingthis houseis coming back to it. ….–Jan Richardson, from “Blessing for Coming Home to an Empty House”, The Cure for Sorrow, p. 45
