Entering the New Year

Let’s enter the New Year and meet the blessing waiting for us…

Painting by Jan Richardson 

With every step

you take

the blessing rises up

to meet you

It has been waiting

long ages for you

Look close

and you can see

the layers of it,

how it has been fashioned

by those who walked

this road before you,

how it has been created

of nothing but

their determination

and their dreaming,

how it has taken

its form

from an ancient hope

that drew them forward

and made a way for them

when no way could be

seen.

Look closer

and you will see

this blessing

is not finished,

that you are part

of the path

it is preparing,

that you are how

this blessing means

to be a voice

within the wilderness

and a welcome

for the way.  

Jan Richardson,
Blessing the Way, from “Circle of Grace”p.37,

Wanton Gospeller Press, Florida 2015.