May this time of waiting bring you unexpected gifts, moments of peace and surrender that arise unbeckoned like mist from the saturated earth and envelop your life in a gauze of sacred presence and veiled knowing;
May the company and concern of friends and family circle ‘round you like an ancient dance, a flurry of movement and color and a certain slant of light that recalls childhood joy and recollects moments of profound and transcendent joy;
May you feel the prayers from those around you, tiny drops of rain on the back of your neck, on the palms of your hands and on your face as you lift your mind and voice to the ever-present and never-changing hearer and healer of all;
May the Lord of all creation create in you a space to be filled, a hunger never fully sated, a thirst that can’t be slaked, a restlessness that rests in God alone;
May the starless filter of midnight bring the astonishing and inescapable light of dawn, moments of hope that string together to make days, pearls of faith and love that make a life.
5 comments On Blessing: For a Friend Awaiting News
As I read each paragraph, I am thrown into the realm that your beautiful words conjure in my mind. I ‘feel’ and ‘live’ the words and I am overwhelmed by the profundity, the immensity and the godliness of your phrases and sentences and my cheeks are stained by tears that stream down, so deeply touched am I by the naked love of our ‘ever present and never changing’ God, our God who patiently awaits us despite our foibles and our unworthiness.
Thank you Steve, once again, for your inspiring reflection. God Bless you and yours always.
Warmest regards,
Lily Lee
Oh Steve, once again, you have a way with words, thank you! Blessings!
Beautiful! Thank you!
The ‘winds’ that blow our way each day, we know not what they bring along
And yet if we keep our Faith and Trust in God steadfastly strong
We will be guided to where we can do no wrong
And as we bask in the fellowship of friends who love us
Their prayers, their care, warmly embracing us thus,
Our thoughts, our words,our actions that follow through
May they be manifestations that we are God’s children true.
Aaah Steve ….. see how your words inspire?
Hi Steve,
I feel I must share with you this great and blessed piece of news which our mutual friend, Anthony Hew, would probably not do
On 6th July 2014, his nephew, the Most Reverend Father Julian Leow, his sister’s son was ordained the Archbishop of the Kuala Lumpur Diocese. An almost 20,000 strong crowd thronged the Church for the Episcopal Ordination ceremony. He will probably go down in the annals of the Catholic Church in Malaysia, nay even the world perhaps
as being the youngest ever to be ordained Archbishop at 50 years of age.
We share with Anthony, the pride, the joy, the hope, and the sense of humility and thankfulness and blessing the family must feel at this appointment.
Thought it’d be good to let you know.
Warmest regards,
Lily Lee