Happy 20th Birthday to our wonderful daughter Laura Gibbons Blessed be the mind that dreamed the day The blueprint of your life Would begin to glow on earth, Illuminating all the faces and voices That would arrive to invite Your soul to growth. Praised be your father and mother, Who loved you before you were, And trusted to call you here With no idea who you would be. Blessed be those who have loved you Into becoming who you were meant to be, Blessed be those who have crossed your life With dark gifts of hurt and loss That have helped to school your mind In the art of disappointment. When desolation surrounded you, Blessed be those who looked for you And found you, their kind hands Urgent to open a blue window In the gray wall formed around you. Blessed be the gifts you never notice, Your health, eyes to behold the world, Thoughts to countenance the unknown, Memory to harvest vanished days, Your heart to feel the worlds waves, Your breath to breathe the nourishment Of distance made intimate by earth. On this echoing-day of your birth, May you open the gift of solitude In order to receive your soul; Enter the generosity of silence To hear your hidden heart; Know the serenity of stillness To be enfolded anew - John O Donohue
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:59:16 +0000
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