Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
From literal to figurative deserts, this has been a year of waiting, endurance, and seeking answers. We are grateful for those who have walked with us, prayed for us, and provided encouragement. We are grateful for moments of beauty and reminders in the midst that we are not alone. And we’re grateful for new beginnings as Andrea begins a new position in her office in January.
Many of you will know that over the past few years we have developed a pattern of finding a poem or phrase that becomes our word or mantra for the year. My former boss at the Staff Care Center introduced me to the following poem and it has carried us through the past months. Perhaps it will do the same for you.
This is the time to be slow / Lie low to the wall / Until the bitter weather passes. / Try as best you can, not to let / The wire brush of doubt / Scrape from your heart / All sense of yourself / And your hesitant light. / If you remain generous / Time will come good; / And you will find your feet / Again on fresh pastures of promise / Where the air will be kind and blushed with beginning /
(John O’Donohue to bless the space between us: a book of blessings)
Duncan and Andrea
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