Oh God, the thought of trying for a new and improved me just makes me tired. I am barely getting anywhere,so draw me closer to a different vision,one that sees that I don’t need perfection —I need love. I need freed from the expectation that life should always be better. The every day stressors—the bills,…
Blessed are we, the graced.We who don’t deserve it, whose failures haunt us, the things we said, the things we left unsaid, the decisions and addictions and broken relationships that have ripple effects we still feel today. Somehow, we are the recipients of this mysterious gift. grace doesn’t erase the pain or harm we’ve caused,…
Blessed are you, who feel the wound of fresh loss. or of the loss… no matter how fresh… that still makes your voice crack all these years later. You who are stuck in the impossibility. Frozen in disbelief. How can this be? It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Blessed are you, fumbling around for…
Let go, let it all go except, of course, when you can’t. Living in the present is nice in theory. except when you are in pain.So let’s bless that tension, the push pull of wanting to let go, sometimes needing to let go, and also needing to hold on. God, sometimes it feels like a…
Blessed are you who have realized that life is hard. and it’s hard for everyone. Your awareness came at a cost. You lost something you can’t get back. You were diagnosed with chronic pain or a degenerative disease. your family fell apart and things have never been the same. Blessed are you who gave up…
God, I carry around this incompleteness, this drive for fulfillment that always seems just around the corner. If only I could get it together and find my true calling, my real passion, or the right plan. God, help me, guide me. What am I missing? Blessed are we who strive earnestly to change ourselves and…
Blessed are we who are becoming,who have lived so longin this strange state we call timethat it shows. We are changing,and that’s how we knowwe are alive. Blessed are you who see theevidence of your own becoming,the places where you are wornfrom so much loving. The laugh lines from jokesthat made your belly ache.Crow’s feet…
Blessed are you who are attempting to love what is here, what is now. You who recognize the wonder and pain looking at life’s rearview mirror, at those things that are gone. The person you were. The quickness and sharpness of a body that didn’t tire as quickly. The relationships and jobs and aspirations. The…
Blessed are we, somewhere unnameable, fully present to our reality. Tracking it, with all its subtle gradations and colors and contrasts, the sweetness and the struggle, the stuck and not-quite-fitting. Authentic to it, mapping the full strangeness of the new emergent landscape. Blessed are we, dear ones, not calling it too soon. Not settling for…
(from the appropriately titled book, “Good Enough”). Now available wherever books are sold. Blessed are you, dear heart, when you feel it again. You had a moment there that felt perfect and certain and complete. Like you could taste the enoughness and satisfaction. And you thought: I could live here forever. And then . ….
Oh God, the suffering I see is unbearable. God, come quickly.Bring swift relief and sweet comfort. God have mercy.Christ have mercy.Spirit have mercy. The world is not lost,but sometimes it seems as though.with trees and homes uprooted—and people’s lives alongside them. Blessed are we who cry out,how long, oh God?Blessed are we who hopeeven when we…
God, I am in the wrong place and I know it, but I can’t get out. I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.― @annelamott Blessed are the poor in spirit,ready to say: I have no idea how…
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