Tag Archives: blessing

Blessing of Palms

Posted on March 24, 2018 by anyushka

This blessing can be heard coming from a long way off. This blessing is making its steady way up the road toward you. This blessing blooms in the throats of women, springs from the hearts of men, tumbles out of … Continue reading →

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See, I Am Doing A New Thing…

Posted on March 20, 2018 by anyushka

Blessing the Seed I should tell you at the outset: this blessing will require you to do some work. First you must simply let this blessing fall from your hand, as if it were a small thing you could easily … Continue reading →

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Blessing The Body

Posted on March 1, 2018 by anyushka

This blessing takes one look at you and all it can say is holy. Holy hands. Holy face. Holy feet. Holy everything in between. Holy even in pain. Holy even when weary. In brokenness, holy. In shame, holy still. Holy … Continue reading →

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A Blessing for Traveling in the Dark

Posted on December 20, 2017 by anyushka

Go slow if you can. Slower. More slowly still. Friendly dark or fearsome, this is no place to break your neck by rushing, by running, by crashing into what you cannot see. Then again, it is true: different darks have … Continue reading →

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Blessing When the World is Ending

Posted on November 29, 2017 by anyushka

Look, the world is always ending somewhere. Somewhere the sun has come crashing down. Somewhere it has gone completely dark. Somewhere it has ended with the gun, the knife, the fist. Somewhere it has ended with the slammed door, the … Continue reading →

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Blessing

Posted on August 25, 2017 by anyushka

Now more than ever let us be the ones who will not turn away. Let us be the ones who will go farther into the wreck and deeper into the rubble. Let us be the ones who will enter into … Continue reading →

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Jacob’s Blessing

Posted on August 2, 2017 by anyushka

  If this blessing were easy, anyone could claim it. As it is, I am here to tell you that it will take some work. This is the blessing that visits you in the struggling, in the wrestling, in the … Continue reading →

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This Night and Every Night

Posted on March 13, 2016 by anyushka

May God bless us in our sleep with rest, in our dreams with vision, in our waking with a calm mind, in our soul with the friendship of the Holy Spirit, this night and every night. (source)

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Questions for the Road

Posted on January 5, 2016 by anyushka

What can I do? What can I contribute? What comes easy to me that is difficult for others? And where is that needed? How and for who can that make a difference?

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Time to Unravel this Weeks’ Knots

Posted on October 23, 2015 by anyushka

It’s the end of a long, LONG week.  I wish I had enough time between now and Monday to relax each knot in my mind and muscles and feelings.  What I can do to rest and nourish myself, I will … Continue reading →

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