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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Just joined this project and will be sharing my entries here on the blog. All it takes is to write about small, every day signs of miracles in my life. I've always been on the lookout for signs that there is something bigger then myself operating in my life. I've seen huge rainbows as a direct answer to some intense praying. I've had some one say something to me that I had just been thinking about, intense things that were very spiritual. I use to ask my grandmother for a sign that she was with me. She had a talent for finding 4 leaf clovers anywhere she looked. I asked her to let me find a clover as proof she was still there with me. One day, while at a park, I found a 5 leaf clover. She was showing me that she was there more then I could know.

I guess these are rather big signs and not so common. If I had to think about what just happened today, I would say I saw several small signs of miracles. I bumped into a family I haven't seen since last year. Not so strange until you know that before I left the house, I saw the families name on an old form from school that was lying out on my counter. I have no idea what that all means but I made sure I went over to say hello. Just trying to be a good listener. It was great to see them again and I realized later that I needed to know there were good people out there to be friends with and not let our connections go stale. I tend to do that sometimes and I'm not entirely sure why. Being very shy at times and then I feel isolated. Not a good place for me to be.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

In memory of my father-in-law

On the death of the Beloved

Though we need to weep your loss,
You dwell in that safe place in our hearts,

Where no storm or night or pain can reach you.

Your love was like the dawn
Brightening over our lives
Awakening beneath the dark
A further adventure of colour.

The sound of your voice
Found for us
A new music
That brightened everything.

Whatever you enfolded in your gaze
Quickened in the joy of its being;
You placed smiles like flowers
On the altar of the heart.
Your mind always sparkled
With wonder at things.

Though your days here were brief,
Your spirit was live, awake, complete.

We look towards each other no longer
From the old distance of our names;
Now you dwell inside the rhythm of breath,
As close to us as we are to ourselves.

Though we cannot see you with outward eyes,
We know our soul’s gaze is upon your face,
Smiling back at us from within everything
To which we bring our best refinement.

Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens,
When kindness glows
And music echoes eternal tones.

When orchids brighten the earth,
Darkest winter has turned to spring;
May this dark grief flower with hope
In every heart that loves you.

May you continue to inspire us:

To enter each day with a generous heart.
To serve the call of courage and love
Until we see your beautiful face again
In that land where there is no more separation,
Where all tears will be wiped from our mind,
And where we will never lose you again.

-- John O’Donohue

From:
TO BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US
(entitled BENEDICTUS in Europe, Ireland and the UK)